Mar 27 2008
Murdoch After the New York Times?
I just found this too funny not to do a post on.
According to businessandmedia.org,
“Howell Raines, former executive editor of The New York Times, is scared for his pension.”
“Raines wrote in the April 2008 Condé Nast Portfolio that he fears the “pirate” Rupert Murdoch will bolster the quality of The Wall Street Journal – which he recently purchased – and “will spend whatever it takes to undermine the Times’ standing as America’s leading general-interest paper.”
But what’s really behind Raines’ fear of Murdoch is a self-interest in protecting his retirement. “As a Times pensioner,” Raines wrote, “I want the paper to make money under public-spirited owners. As a reader, I believe a Murdoch takeover of our last independent national newspaper would be a disaster for the trustworthy reporting on which our civil life depends.”
IMHO, I personally take issue with the last half-sentence that losing the NYT “would be a disaster for the trustworthy reporting on which our civil life depends”!
Oh puhleez!!! The same kind of ‘trustworthy reporting’ that jeopardizes our safety by trumpeting NSA confidential guidelines?
The same kind of ‘trustworthy reporting’ that caused you to fire several reporters only AFTER it came out that they fabricated their stories?
Oh, now I see the connection that NYT has with Hillary. The Times & Hillary both know how to fabricate details of things that never took place!!!