Geffen sets sights on NY Times

Financial Times ^ | May 12 2009 | By Matthew Garrahan in Los Angeles and Kenneth Li and Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson in New York

[boycott]

David Geffen, the former record executive who made an offer for the Los Angeles Times two years ago, now wants to buy the New York Times, according to people close to the situation.

[boycott]

Obama man Geffen sets sights on NYT.

Geffen is one of the guys that got Obama to run.

The following link discusses Geffen getting Obama to run:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/11/obama-geffen.html

[scooby321]

Good he will go broke as fast as Sam Zell did with Tribune Company.

[Unam Sanctam]

I doubt it could become any more of an Obama propaganda sheet than it already is under little Pinch.

[boycott]

I doubt that.

Geffen would get bailout money from his buddy in the White House.

They’re already discussing bailouts for the print media. I doubt the libs let their propaganda machines die.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

The one and only way for the New York Times to be resurgent, is for it to drop the marxist crap - and be like Fox News or Rush.

They won’t do that. So they’ll fail.

The New York Times has become the buggy whip factory of record.

[Frantzie]

How bad off is Sam? I know he took a took a big hit. I wonder if Carlos Slim will be able to call his $250 million note plus ask a premium. Geffen will probably have to pump in $100 million a year which he could easily do for 15 tp 25 years.

[Frantzie]

NYT = The Old Gray Buggy Whip (Lady).

[classified]

I agree and who in the hell does Geffen expect to attract to read this rehashed rag? Remember the people who were reading the rag before were educated enough to recognize communist garbage presented before their very eyes! This was the reason the paper had lost its credibility.

[boycott]

You’re right about that.

I remember learning about propaganda in high school. It used to be Pravada and Tass in the former USSR. Now it’s the NYT and most every other news source in the USA.

[Dick Bachert]

How to make a small fortune:

Start with a LARGE fortune and buy a failed liberal rag of a newspaper.

[dfwgator]

I guess that would make the Times a real “Fag Rag.”

[4rcane]

i hope he does buy it, his fortune is going to take a hit

[Gay State Conservative]

I guess that would make the Times a real “Fag Rag.”

Oh,it's been that for years....as has its bastard stepchild,the Boston Globe.

[jeltz25]

I don’t understand why some rich conservative or a group of rich conservatives wouldn’t just put an offer on the table to rich to refuse, buy it, and then fire the entire staff and let the paper atrophy or totally change its content

[4rcane]

Most conservatives invest to make money, not to advocate

[Bernard Marx]

I doubt it could become any more of an Obama propaganda sheet than it already is under little Pinch.

But under Geffen the Grey Lady will come all the way out of the closet and be known as the Gay Lady. It may go national targeting major homo enclaves outside NYC. It'll be a hit in Hollywood, San Fransicko, Miami and other well-known teabagging locations.

[boycott]

I agree.

I wish someone like Rush would. He’s got enough money now to buy that rag.

[boycott]

No doubt that he could continue his liberal and homosexual agenda. Before long we’d probably be seeing extremist articles in support of NAMBLA.

[Bobalu]

Only a fool would accept the New York Times as a gift, let alone actually pay something for it.

[Steelfish]

Geffen is no fool. He will make the NY Times the Trojan Horse for the gay Newspaper- The Advocate