it's mine, all mine..."
Posted on 09/03/2008 10:15:40 AM PDT by gondramB
LONDON -- Rupert Murdoch is considering an acquisition of The New York Times , according to a report by Vanity Fair's Michael Wolff, who wrote a profile and interviewed the News Corp. chairman and chief executive. Wolff speaks of watching Murdoch "go through the numbers, plot out a merger with the Journal's backroom operations, and fantasize about the staff's quitting en masse as soon as he entered the sacred temple." The article doesn't directly quote Murdoch on his reported interest. There would be clear regulatory obstacles to a New York Times acquisition in addition to a likely reticence on the Sulzberger family to sell to him. News Corp. also owns MarketWatch, the publisher of this report.
If I had Gates types money, would buy it, fire them all and close it down and write it off.
Is he just offering to pay for the NYT’s funeral?
Less talk. Make it happen.
“When I get the New York Times on Friday I know it’s the weekend”
“And I know it’s time to go to the mailbox to get my unemployment check.”
This news will no doubt bring the Left to the barricades. Not that such an event as the Left at the barricades is significant.
“Buy it, show up, have Pinch’s clothes torn from his body, drag him down the stairs, across the lobby, and throw him out the front door. Then call Police and tell them there’s a half-naked man sitting outside the building.”
ROTFL!
Rush succeeds because people want to hear the conservative side. He doesn't make a pretense of being balanced, but he also doesn't make crap up.
Doesn’t he already own the Wall Street Journal? Why get another national newspaper?
I know it’s family and all, but it’s just amazing the Sulzbergers would allow Pinch to run the place into the ground. A sane business would have replaced him LONG ago.
He might give Mo Dowdy a chance to stay on, but only if she’s very, very nice to him....
His entire family is probably closet queens and he’ll out them all if they try and boot him. Pinch looks semi-closet himself.
give the New York Times the same high reputation as the Times of London.
even giving it the reputation of ‘The Sun’ would be an improvement
Alternately, there could be a restoration. It might remain annoyingly liberal in its editorial slant and outlook
they’d probably resign in protest
You say that like its a bad thing ... :)
If you bother to pick up a copy of the Sunday New York Times and turn to the ever-thinner classified advertising section, and scan carefully under professional employment, you'll be very lucky to find a category, "Help Wanted: Journalist".
They'll have what Mark Twain called corn-pone opinions, they're lucky to have any job at all.
Hoho! Just the thought that Murdoch MIGHT purchase the Gray Lady affects the pucker factor by three notches!
Yes, Murdoch recently purchased the Wall Street Journal. Owning more news outlets allows more coordination and, ehem, streamlining.
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