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Murdoch Reportedly Considers New York Times Deal: Report
Fox Business ^ | Home / Markets / Industries / Media Wednesday, September 03, 2008 | Steve Goldstein

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.


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: liberalmedia; murdoch; nyt; toogoodtobetrue
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To: gondramB; All
Never forget:

Quote:
the Times's new publisher, Arthur "Pinch" Sulzberger Jr ... was a sixties anti-war activist who famously declared that in a confrontation between an American and a North Vietnamese soldier he'd want to see the American get shot."
Unquote.
Stanley Kurtz (NRO on line, June 5, 2001)

61 posted on 09/03/2008 2:14:53 PM PDT by aculeus
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

Bah! He should let the NYTs die in ignominy and start from scratch if he wants to publish a newspaper.


62 posted on 09/03/2008 2:18:35 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: aculeus
Arthur "Pinch" Sulzberger Jr and William Ayers are two peas from the same pod. One wishes for the death of American patriots and publishes intelligence community secrets the other actually killed American patriots and teaches communism in a "respected" university.

FOO - Friends Of Obama

Pity the poor FOOs.

63 posted on 09/03/2008 2:23:03 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: Deb

The Sulzberger family may not have a choice but to sell given the fact the public stock in the company is increasingly falling in value.


64 posted on 09/03/2008 2:29:08 PM PDT by RayChuang88
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

>>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”.<<

Yeah but with the next Vice President being a journalism major maybe that will change.


65 posted on 09/03/2008 2:33:46 PM PDT by gondramB (Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words.)
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To: gondramB

A few years back there were thirty journalism graduates for every entry level opening for a journalist. It would have to get a whole lot better to change that.

Woodward and Bernstein were a disaster for American journalism. Journalism school enrollment surged, swollen with would-be crusaders bent on saving the world and incumbents began taking their status as the Fourth Estate far too seriously.


66 posted on 09/03/2008 3:17:26 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (His Negritude has made his negritude the central theme of this campaign)
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To: Argus
Mo will probably end upkeppin a barstool anchored to the ground.

OOPS, A little bird said somthin about Mo doin that already!!!

67 posted on 09/03/2008 4:14:59 PM PDT by Cheapskate (Play loudly and carry BIG sticks!)
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To: TigersEye

Let them be afraid. =]


68 posted on 09/03/2008 5:02:03 PM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (The Borking of Palin is Wellstone Times Ten.)
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To: BlessedBeGod

The only way there could be a problem is if there are broadcast licenses involved.. Since NewsCorp is mainly cable, there shouldn’t be any issues (I don’t think there would be any SEC issues either) What he could is to JOA the two papers, fire the Slimes newsroom/editorial board and march on...Kewl


69 posted on 09/03/2008 5:42:36 PM PDT by offduty (NoBama '08....Keep the Change)
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To: ConservativeMan55

Does he own the NY post or what?


70 posted on 09/03/2008 5:45:33 PM PDT by omega4179 (McCain Palin)
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To: Milhous; abb

Have you seen this?


71 posted on 09/03/2008 6:18:06 PM PDT by TenthAmendmentChampion (Global warming is to Revelations as the theory of evolution is to Genesis.)
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To: TenthAmendmentChampion

Yes, saw it yesterday!


72 posted on 09/03/2008 6:19:38 PM PDT by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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To: gondramB
and fantasize about the staff's quitting en masse

We can always hope.

73 posted on 09/03/2008 6:21:35 PM PDT by giotto
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To: gondramB
Owning both the Journal and NYT will not likely get approved by government, no matter who runs it.

It just won't make it past the antitrust folks.

74 posted on 09/03/2008 9:28:19 PM PDT by Cold Heat (Well....................................That's .....that.........)
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To: RayChuang88
Murdoch can then sell off the New York Post with its somewhat tawdry reputation and give the New York Times the same high reputation as the Times of London.

After he brings the best New York Post folks (and columnists) to the Times. He can sell the Post to someone who will retain its current editorial orientation. Drive New York crazy.

75 posted on 09/03/2008 10:22:11 PM PDT by TBP
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To: theDentist
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.

Knowing Rupert, he'd get a phot of Pinchie before he called the cops, then he'd run he pic on teh front page the next morning.

76 posted on 09/03/2008 10:23:49 PM PDT by TBP
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March; PhilDragoo; devolve; gondramB; y'all

bump ! bump ! bump !


77 posted on 09/03/2008 10:59:11 PM PDT by MeekOneGOP (Obama, WHO is Bill Ayers and WHY are you still friends with him? Please RSVP asap!)
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To: ConservativeMan55

That would be like cleaning the maggots off a decayed corpse, one by one. Why bother?


78 posted on 09/03/2008 11:13:42 PM PDT by dr_who
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To: MeekOneGOP

Let them be afraid. Muahahahaha!


80 posted on 09/04/2008 5:18:57 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (Its the Medias blood in the water and THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE THE SHARKS! -- austinaero)
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