Murdoch wants NYTimes for empire, author says

[Mari333]

This is what Vanity Fair columnist and newly minted Murdoch biographer Michael Wolff thinks the 77-year-old media mogul will do, regardless of sound business strategy, investors and U.S. government rules about who can own what.

"He really contemplates how he can get The New York Times," said Wolff, author of "The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch."
I've watched him go through the numbers, plot out a Times merger with the Journal's backroom operations and fantasize about the staff quitting en masse," Wolff wrote.

Murdoch has said that he wants to use the Journal to compete with the Times.


http://www.reuters.com/article/reutersEdge/idUSTRE4AR6KS20081128

[jwirr]

1. Media is one monopoly that we need to break up now. Well, Jan. 08.

[derby378]

2. When reached for comment, Murdoch said...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B72fbXDQ7Lg&feature=related

[Joe Chi Minh]

3. This is the wrong time, Rupe. Your days of holding national leaders

will soon be over.