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General Category => Editorial/Opinion/Blogs => Topic started by: ABX on August 16, 2016, 08:46:24 pm

Title: Trump: Interest in New York Times in ‘Evaluation Stage’ (Flashback 2013)
Post by: ABX on August 16, 2016, 08:46:24 pm
A little flashback supporting the buzz regarding Trump's actual goal is to buy a media company and he is now just creating a new customer base for himself. (more to come)

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With Donald Trump, you can never tell where the TV show ends and reality begins. Is he serious about buying the New York Times?

In a brief interview this afternoon, Trump said he wouldn’t comment on his intentions or strategy, deferring to a spokesman who said that Trump’s posture toward the Times was in the “evaluation stage.” But Trump appears to have done a modicum of homework on the finances of the Times, recounting the paper’s unsuccessful business investments of the past decade....

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/01/trump-interest-in-times-in-evaluation-stage.html