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• [1] Jon from NYC April 22, 2008 - 11:45AM

  The NY Post, the Wall Street Journal, and now Newsday... Dying medium or not, where are trust-busters when you need them?

  
  
• [2] antonio from park slope April 22, 2008 - 11:46AM

  does this matter since everyone knows that newscorp are a buch of hacks i.e. fox news, post?

  
  
• [3] Gene April 22, 2008 - 11:48AM

  Certainly horrifying to think Murdoch is aiming to make the NY Post "the paper of record."

  
  
• [4] superf88 April 22, 2008 - 11:50AM

  Brauchli is the canary in the coal mine, w Murdoch's crapmachine being the poison -- I promised myself I'd stop reading WSJ if Brauchli left. Sad.

  
  
• [5] Liz from Sunset Park, Brooklyn April 22, 2008 - 11:50AM

  Murdoch is a media consuming machine, he's good at what he does but that doesn't mean what he does is good for mass media as a whole. Do we want Newsday to become NY's "The Sun?" I can't really see Long Islander's lining up to be the "Page 3 girl..."

  We need to resist the tabloidization of our news systems. Resist Rupert Murdoch's global empire.

  
  
• [6] Ramon Maldonado from Forest Hills, Queens April 22, 2008 - 11:50AM

  Isn't dangerous that such an influential republican partisan have too much power over the New York area papers?

  
  
• [7] Rachel Cisse April 22, 2008 - 11:56AM

  I have suspected a subtle shift in tone after years of reading the paper but it didn't hit me until I read a box under an editoral piece directing me to check for more opinions at Fox News. Just this past weekend I cancelled by subscriotion to the Wall Street Journal after 5 years.

  
  
• [8] Joe in Manhattan from Manhattan April 22, 2008 - 11:57AM

  ARE NEWSPAPERS STRUGGLING IN THE U.K.? IF NOT, WHY NOT??

  
  
• [9] hjs from 11211 April 22, 2008 - 11:58AM

  i gave up on newspapers a while back. with fewer newpapers people will have to look other places for REAL news.

  
  
• [10] barry from Manhattan April 22, 2008 - 11:59AM

  Free Market

  Start your own paper

  But put it on line.

  
  
• [11] Carlos Rivera from Bronx April 22, 2008 - 11:59AM

  It might be time to lobby congress and FCC to decouple the News component of the major networks, and have a BBC like organization to take over the news functions that are essential to our liberties.

  
  
• [12] Jeffrey Slott from East Elmhurst April 22, 2008 - 12:01PM

  This guy is so wrong about media consolidation. I don't care about the so-called internet alternative. There are still plenty of people out there who get their news from newspapers, magazines, and broadcast TV. Hell, I can't even read copy from a computer screen. At best I have to recompose everything in Word and then print it out.

  What's the point of having three or four or five supposedly different newspapers when they are all owned by the same person?

  
  
• [13] Orlando from Rego Park, Queens, NY April 22, 2008 - 02:57PM

  Newsday's purchase by someone like Rupert Murdoch would certainly mean one thing to me. I will have to dig HARDER for sources of professional, in-depth, news and points of view not designed to provoke bias or irrational, solely emotional points of view.

  
  
• [14] HB from Midtown April 25, 2008 - 01:48PM

  Does anyone know if this proposed sale also includes the other Tribune paper in NY, AMNY? I know it's no great piece of journalism, but it is free and totally a part of my morning routine (guilty pleasure). I've got to think that News corp will see no reason to keep this going if they get their paws on it.