Murdoch Reportedly Considers New York Times Deal: Report

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[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.

[aculeus]

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)

[TigersEye]

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

[TigersEye]

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.

[RayChuang88]

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.

[gondramB]

>>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.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

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.

[Cheapskate]

Mo will probably end upkeppin a barstool anchored to the ground.

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

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Let them be afraid. =]

[offduty]

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

[omega4179]

Does he own the NY post or what?

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

Have you seen this?

[abb]

Yes, saw it yesterday!

[giotto]

and fantasize about the staff's quitting en masse

We can always hope.

[Cold Heat]

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.

[TBP]

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.

[TBP]

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.

[MeekOneGOP]

bump ! bump ! bump !

[dr_who]

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

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Let them be afraid. Muahahahaha!