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Rupert Murdoch, other potential
buyers eye L.A. Times
Los Angeles Times, by Meg James
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Posted By:JoniTx, 10/19/2012 10:16:44 PM
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| With Tribune Co. expected to emerge from bankruptcy soon, News Corp. Chairman and Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch is looking to acquire two of its trophy properties — the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune. Tribune Co.'s debt holders — two investment firms and a bank — will become majority owners of the company after it exits bankruptcy, which could happen by year's end. News Corp. executives have had preliminary talks with these debt holders about acquiring the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune, according to two ranking News Corp. executives and others familiar with the situation.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
PageTurner, 10/19/2012 10:21:12 PM (No. 8946983)
A debt pit. Good luck cleaning that one up with all those leftists.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Rubinski, 10/19/2012 10:34:27 PM (No. 8947006)
Why?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Italiano, 10/19/2012 10:41:29 PM (No. 8947018)
Several commercial fish canneries are reportedly also in the running. They need to preserve their primary source of shipping material.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Nimby, 10/19/2012 10:53:24 PM (No. 8947029)
Will the Obama videos come out?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
fireman28, 10/19/2012 10:54:23 PM (No. 8947030)
Would be nice to convert them to Conservative papers.
Bet they would show a profit.
Make them friendly to i-pads, etc.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Bird, 10/19/2012 10:57:30 PM (No. 8947032)
I think it would be the height of schadenfreud (sp?) if Murdock were to buy the LA Slimes and turn it into a decent, TRUTHFUL newspaper. I know that print media are suffering because of the Internet, but it would be a hoot if Rupert were to make it a viable paper.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
SteelTurman, 10/19/2012 11:02:32 PM (No. 8947037)
Orange County is very conservative and he would turn that rag on its ear to hit that market.
He would shake up the Left Coast media like nothing else.
Do it!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Robinsolana, 10/19/2012 11:06:45 PM (No. 8947040)
It would be like mucking out the stables, but Murdoch could probably do it.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
NY Betsy Rose, 10/20/2012 12:05:34 AM (No. 8947085)
Good.. do it quick Rup and get the Khalidi tapes produced before the election! But I dream...
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
faldo, 10/20/2012 12:20:55 AM (No. 8947096)
Why does everyone here confuse Rupert Murdoch with Roger Ailes...? Rupert is a lefty, especially since Wendi entered his life; and his son James is a friggen radical leftist.
Where's the missing iphone, mate...?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
wtm, 10/20/2012 12:52:07 AM (No. 8947123)
People WILL buy a conservative paper, just look at Fox News ratings.
Fire all the libs working there and hire some people that will just report the news and not give their opinions !!!
(Can't wait to see the Libs go nuts !)
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
jkcinsalem, 10/20/2012 2:35:43 AM (No. 8947167)
The Tribune was conservative, in the days of Col. McCormick. May he R.I.P.
I used to work there in the '70s. A beautiful, historic building.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
BcdErick, 10/20/2012 2:48:22 AM (No. 8947174)
The LAT is a lousy, embarrassing paper. It's market base is mostly unhinged. What does Murdoch care? He's rich and 81 years old. He to like to play with papers as toys. The NY Post loses million of $ a year and has done for a long time. He doesn't seem to care.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Spidey, 10/20/2012 2:58:05 AM (No. 8947178)
Some fat cat leftist,who's gotten millions of free dollars from Obama will step in and buy the papers. There's no way the left would allow these two rags to go conservative.Their monopoly over the MSM would be gone.
And what would the writers do if they suddenly had to become honest?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
vwlarry, 10/20/2012 4:05:28 AM (No. 8947209)
What's black and white and dead all over?
Newspapers.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
srhcb, 10/20/2012 7:00:26 AM (No. 8947318)
Print media are not suffering just because of the Internet.
Print media are justly suffering for having printed nothing but liberal pap and bs for so long.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
plumnellie, 10/20/2012 10:42:26 AM (No. 8947858)
I actually like newspapers and think they work in small towns. But the big newspapers have killed themselves by biased writing and covering up for select groups.
My small town newspaper could be a good one if it were not owned by a birkenstock liberal boomer. My Mom still takes the paper so it gets passed to us but when she can no longer see the print I will stop.
I used to write a column and there is nothing more fun than to hear about someone cutting out my column and putting it on the refrigerator. That is a thrill. But, got fired for being too pro life. I was replaced by a New Age, Tarot card, crystal using yankee. She is fat as mud...yes that is not pc to say, and painted her home bright purple to show her staid(actually historically minded) neighbors the stink eye. She has gorgoyles and other 'art' in her yard and in general loves to bash Christians and conservatives. And, the owner wonders why his newspaper is failing. Doh.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
BigGeorgeTX, 10/20/2012 1:16:26 PM (No. 8948205)
I suppose, with some basic re-engineering, they can produce toilet paper. Ironic, isn't it?
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Think of it as a horizontal townhouse. Most developers hype the sky-high verticals of their new glitzy buildings, but a new condominium called The Whitman — soon to be home to former First Daughter Chelsea Clinton - has a completely different selling point: It features the longest apartments in the city. The four-unit building stretches an entire block between E. 26th and E. 27th Sts. It takes almost 30 second to walk the approximate 250-foot central corridor. "The hallway is a wow factor," said Douglas Elliman broker Dina Lewis, who shares the listing with partner Melanie Lazenby, daughter of
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Sins Of The Fourth Estate (Part I)
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The one clear thing that came out of last week´s chaotic activity in Boston, Massachusetts is that real reporters were missing. For that matter, they´ve been missing since last year´s attack in Benghazi. From Benghazi, the Gosnell abortion trial, gun control debates, immigration and then the Boston Marathon bombings, television news reporting has become positively painful to watch. The First Amendment to the Constitution grants freedom of the press but this was supposed to endow it with a responsibility to be the people´s watchdog. The modern Fourth Estate represented by the mainstream media has made a mockery of this privilege.
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Newsbusters, by Tim Graham
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The leftists at Mother Jones are brandishing another secret tape. Pollster Frank Luntz, denounced as too conservative by liberals when he turns up on liberal networks, told a group of college students at the University of Pennsylvania this week that Rush Limbaugh and right-wing talk radio are "problematic" for the GOP and that he and Mark Levin were “killing” Marco Rubio for his immigration proposals. Democrats have “got every other source of news on their side. And so that is a lot of what´s driving it. If you take—Marco Rubio´s getting his ass kicked. Who´s
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