[SoFloFreeper]

No worries as I am sure the Obama super fan will not allow his political bias to influence his newspaper's coverage of the One....(cough cough)

[skeeter]

142 million is a small investment compared to the sweet deals the Kenyan Kommie can set Buffett up with.

[PGR88]

Buffett always talks about the absolute necessity of his investments having an “economic mote” ie) that thing which competitors couldn’t duplicate and the market would always need as there was no viable replacement.

Exactly how do dying newspapers fit that requirement???

For me, Buffett showed his “country cousin” routine to be a fraud when he “invested in” Goldman Sachs just before it was bailed out by TARP and the FED.

[Steely Tom]

Stand by for the usual MSM caterwauling about "the concentration of media outlets under the control of a single corporate entity."

Oh, wait.

Buffett's a liberal. Never mind.

[opentalk]

Somewhat related, Buffet is a big donor to the Gates foundation. Bill Gates is obsessed with population control and abortion. His father worked for planned parenthood.

Bill Gates Buys More News Coverage for His Seattle Foundation, Gives ABC $1.5 Million (2010)

[AngelesCrestHighway]

What a waste of money but its liberal money so who cares? No one reads nespapers anymore anyway except for the adds, sports and comics.

[ken5050]

This is a hoot..so they are "keeping the Tampa Trib.."

Let me translate..they couldn't GIVE it away...

Big rumor here is that the Trib folds at the end of the year..The want to let their reporters cover the RNC, and get the $$ from the Christmas ads..and then..they pull the plug..

The Bay area can't support TWO papers..so now we'll be stuck with the commie Tampa Bar Times...

[SuziQ]

Hmmm. Will the left now start whining about Buffett the way they continually whine about Rupert Murdoch? Methinks that’s not ruddy likely.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

That averages to two and a quarter million per paper. Not screaming conspiracy here but if papers were still healthy you could only touch a few for that price. I'm saying that the leftist agenda papers have been selling more and more may have also had a hidden one causing what I believe are fire sale prices. There may have been a method to this madness all along. Would explain why we were always perplexed as to why their cure for declining readership and ad sales was always more liberalism. Was the fix in all along with a long term strategy to make these papers sell at discount rack prices?

[Slump Tester]

That’ll soon be 63 more papers we aren’t allowed to post from.