On Monday, August 5, 2013 11:12:26 PM UTC-4, PGage wrote: > > > http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/washington-post-to-be-sold-to-jeff-bezos/2013/08/05/ca537c9e-fe0c-11e2-9711-3708310f6f4d_story.html > > > Though not a TV story, I wonder what folks here think of this development > (it is arguably a major event in the broader media world). In this day and > age it seems rare to have a story like this take us by such surprise, > though I guess it is not really surprising to see a newspaper getting sold, > for a relative bargain - Bezos paid $250 million, in cash (the NYT just > sold the Boston Globe for $70M, after buying it for $1.1B in 1993); his net > worth is $25.2 Billion. > > > Jimmy Fallon had a line last night (not an exact quote): "The Boston Globe was just sold for $70 million, after having been sold in 1993 for $1.1 billion. I couldn't believe that story when I read it for free on the internet." -Tim
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