Stop the presses! The Schadenfreude Gazette has actually stipulated to the facts about the imminent sale of crosstown rival Boston Globe.
From today’s edition of the feisty local tabloid:
Rupert Murdoch has ‘no interest’ in the Boston Globe
Media titan quashes talk of bid
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch won’t be bidding on the Boston Globe, according to … Rupert Murdoch.
“Emphatically, no,” Murdoch said when buttonholed on the red carpet at the Academy Awards on Sunday night, according to a tweet by Variety’s deputy editor Cynthia Littleton.
Littleton tweeted Sunday night: “Rupert Murdoch not interested in Boston Globe. Flat out denial on red carpet. ‘Emphatically, no’ he assured #oscars.”
Of course, the only “talk of bid” that needed to be quashed appeared in – wait for it – the Herald, which resolutely ignored the reality that federal cross-ownership rules prohibit Murdoch from owning a television station (Fox 25) and a newspaper (the Globe) in the same market (Boston).
But why get technical about it.
After all, it’s the Herald.
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John, I think you’re shorting your readers on some juicy history here. The Herald was owned by Murdoch until ’94 when he was forced, by the very law you mention, to give up ownership, selling the paper to Pat Purcell. (That law resulted from language inserted into an appropriations bill by Senator Ted Kennedy.)
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