Discussion for article #243777
I’m betting Adelson.
As if this country’s media wasn’t already too far to the right.
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prompted journalists to speculate that the newspaper was purchased for political influence
Yea…and?
Lots of deliciously ironic quotables here…A Bush fretting about media ownership…Lord, as rich as a Christmas pudding!
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Media ownership should be public – never “undisclosed.” This just goes to show how far gone is America’s former “Fourth Estate.”
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Coverage should be interesting since, like Dracula, the media cannot see its own reflection…
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The new owners have told staffers that they won’t interfere with editorial content.
Until they do…
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There was an article elsewhere that said that several months ago the newspaper had sold for $40 million less than it had now, which seems to suggest there is more to this story than meets the eye.
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If Shkreli bought it, the price of a single copy of the paper is about to go up to $437.19.
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Where’s Anonymous when we need them?
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Ownership’s identity is unfit to print
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… which they already have.
The publisher of the Las Vegas Review-Journal removed quotes from a Thursday night article about the newspaper’s sale that questioned its new owner’s decision to remain anonymous, according to a newsroom source.
Around midnight Thursday, publisher Jason Taylor had editors remove a quote from Michael Schroeder, manager for News + Media Capital Group LLC, the undisclosed financial backers taking over the paper. In the original version, Schroeder, who also runs four community papers as president and CEO of Central Connecticut Publishing, was quoted telling Review-Journal staffers at a Thursday meeting that they shouldn’t worry about the identities of the owners.
The original article also included quotes from editor Michael Hengel expressing concerns about the secretive ownership arrangement.
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I’m old enough to remember when people read newspapers.
While it’s highly unlikely, I’m praying that the “undisclosed financial backers with expertise in the media industry” turn out to be Larry Flynt, Theresa Flynt, Tonya Flynt-Vega, Lisa Flynt and Larry Flynt, Jr.
Oh, and there is this little goodie published in yesterday’s Las Vegas Review-Journal.
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The Koch Brothers… Harry Reid is in open gleeful war with those billionaire scum and this is their attempt to make sure his replacement isn’t quite so combative. By the by, for comparison, Jeff Bezos, the billionaire founder of Amazon, only paid $250,000,000 for the Washington Post… there is NO ZERO NADA rational economic reason for anyone who has “media expertise” to spend that sum of money on a craptastic daily newspaper in a third-rate economic market… but what’s $140,000,000 to the Koch Brothers… nothing… pocket lint. Our national and state taxation rates insure this sort of corruption of democracy…