{"id":196340,"date":"2008-05-05T17:21:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-05T22:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/05\/looks-like-murdoch-wont-get-newsday\/"},"modified":"2008-05-05T17:21:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-05T22:21:00","slug":"looks-like-murdoch-wont-get-newsday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/05\/looks-like-murdoch-wont-get-newsday\/","title":{"rendered":"Looks Like Murdoch Won&#8217;t Get Newsday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Zell bought Tribune company, and then couldn&#8217;t handle the debt, so he&#8217;s looking at selling Newsday, arguably one of the crown jewels of the empire.<\/p>\n<p>A bidding war has erupted, with Rupert Murdoch (NY Post) and Mort Zuckerman (NY Daily News) fighting it out, but now it appears taht <a href=\"http:\/\/biz.yahoo.com\/ap\/080502\/newsday_sale.html?.v=2\">cablevision has trumped them both<\/a>, bidding $650 million as vs. the roughly $580M of Murdoch and Zuckerman.<\/p>\n<p>Newsday has generally had a good reputation for covering its region (Long Island), and it not becoming a part of Murdoch&#8217;s Newscorp is a good thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Zell bought Tribune company, and then couldn&#8217;t handle the debt, so he&#8217;s looking at selling Newsday, arguably one of the crown jewels of the empire. A bidding war has erupted, with Rupert Murdoch (NY Post) and Mort Zuckerman (NY Daily News) fighting it out, but now it appears taht cablevision has trumped them both, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,1064],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196340"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}