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I expect the New York Times company to be taken over within the next 4-5 months. Whether it's Carlos Slim (despite the somewhat iffy past--but he definitely has to cash to do so) or by NewsCorp (Rupert Murdoch's company), it will happen.

I think the late Abraham "A.M." Rosenthal would be deeply saddened by this--he was Editor-in-Chief of the paper for 11 years during its halcyon days. Rosenthal had a strict dictum that you can't editorialize on the actual story itself, and in fact his epitaph reads: He kept the paper straight. I just could not imagine the sadness he experienced as former Editor-in-Chief Howell Raines completely ruined the Times with the very biased reporting on the Augusta National Golf Club controversy and the Jayson Blair scandal.