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To: abb

>>>>>McClatchy’s $4.5 billion purchase in 2006 of Knight Ridder,<<<<<<<<

Hard to believe the McClatchy family signed-on to that idiotic decision.

18 posted on 12/06/2008 5:43:36 AM PST by angkor (Conservatism is not a religious movement.)

To: angkor

Hey, New York Times Corporation is now worth less than what they bought the Boston Globe for.

19 posted on 12/06/2008 5:51:18 AM PST by Leisler ("Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever. " Lenin)

To: angkor

But the Ridder family got out just in the nick of time. As did the Pulitzer family.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/03/14/BUGEJHNF9F1.DTL
Ridder to get millions in sale
Newspaper chain execs will profit in McClatchy deal

http://www.forbes.com/2005/01/31/0131autofacescan02.html
Pulitzer: Dynasty Closes A Chapter In Newspaper Publishing

20 posted on 12/06/2008 5:52:41 AM PST by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)

To: angkor

And the Chandler clan.

21 posted on 12/06/2008 5:58:38 AM PST by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)

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