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I consider this good news!
I consider this good news!
Huntsman Family Buying the Salt Lake Tribune
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I consider this good news!
I don't.
Having the home town news done by a New York management firm, or a church, is bad news.
And although, arguably, the Huntsman family could represent local ownership with long-standing Utah roots, I note that JOn Huntsman, the gov then ambassador is a really smart dude who pledged to defend Utah water, and then caved and sold us out,after fellow Mormon Nevada Senator whatshisname Hairy sidled up to him with a deal he could swing with his Obama connections. Both Reid and Obama have Las Vegas mafia connections, to boot with their Dem credentials, just like former Nev. Governor and military industrial complex corporate honcho James Gibson.
Amabassador to Chjna in exchange for our water.
That's Mormon integrity at it's finest, but it is not good news for Utah.
Jon Huntsman Sr. made his money dealing with corrupt dealmakers
Whether the Mormons were a fraud from the beginning or not, the present Mormon Church has sullied it's merit with prominent dealmakers like these. It was the Tribune that ran the muck on John Swallow and until only recently began to look at Reid's involvement. I think this offer to buy is essentially a deal to cover for Reid.
How about that? The Trib has been in financial pain for a good long time, and now they get to sell out because they started nosing into the real news, and with this deal we will get to go on being the Mushroom State.
I think it's better that both our local newspapers aren't owned by the same organization.
The idea that the paper is being bought specifically to cover for Reid is pretty comical to me.
I don't need newspaper owners to pass a purity test. I'd hope they don't specifically squash certain stories, but most newspapers have an angle.
The idea that the paper is being bought specifically to cover for Reid is pretty comical to me.
I don't need newspaper owners to pass a purity test. I'd hope they don't specifically squash certain stories, but most newspapers have an angle.
I agree it's gotta be more than that. . . . the idea of holding sway generally for a lot of reasons. Influence and leverage will make it pay, even if the newspaper income and expenses don't exactly add up.
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I could probably trust you to find some reason to ignore the facts of our political system, one way or another. But this is your thread. So I'm backing out. Where perhaps we can agree is that people have a right in this country to seek influence in our political system, I'll hand you your share for the Dems, but I think the LDS need some lines of influence too. I just wish they could find better friends in the neighborhood. . . .
Huntsman people are plenty smart. I bet they can make the Trib a better paper than it's ever been. You might find out, later on, you don't like their way any more than I do.
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No need to back out. I just find it funny that a newspaper that got taken over by their competitor and then was not run well by that competitor in a very bleak market for print journalism being bought by the wealthiest family on the state with the stated aim to keep an independent voice instantly leads you to the conclusion that it's being done as a way to squash stories about Reid.
That's funny to me. I have no idea if it's true or not. I have no way to know. But you have been part of the British Royal family, been high up in the church. You've studied physics at a high level, the environment. You've done in depth studies on the effects of marijuana. You're a farmer. You have created the longest thread in the history of jazzfanz. So if anyone knows or could find out I'm sure that person is you.
Believe me, I have as much fun with all this as you do, and I honor your wit and humor. That's about all we really have left, or ever had, that can enable us to grin and bear it.
I started out pretty well convinced I knew nothing, and I early on adopted a philosophy that you can't really know it all unless you do know it all, because it's the one thing you might not understand that could reverse the sense of everything else you think you know.
That is still my fundamental belief system.
But I enjoy the challenge of marching out the information for all it's worth and seeing if it can walk, talk, and live up to the measure of truth.
A farmer who will listen to others, and learn everything he can from everyone, is gonna get pretty damn informed.
I shined the boots of corporate billionaires and church leaders, and I saw what they did, and I listened to their talk. I gotta be at least as informed as Obama. My family pretensions of royalty could be laughable, I suppose. Probably every royal stud did a few milkmaids, and by the laws of statistics it's virtually certain that you are also descended from some royal or another.
If anything, the reason the British Royalty has survived to this date is precisely because they knew what boots to polish, and who to listen to. Gotta be pretty smart to dance the dance on the world stage.
I was a student of one Nobel scientist, and an employee of one who received the Priestly medal, and the heads of three different departments of the University of Utah School of Medicine. It took a young ambitious scientist to tell me I needed to go out into the private sector where I could earn better money. So I did, but really I've never cared enough to succeed in business. I worked for one billionaire industrialist, saw him tap on his government connections to get the BLM to flag his own company with a billion dollar lawsuit, after which he deftly stopped paying his bills including $100M in junk bonds, and took the company into bankruptcy. The judge ordered the operation sold at auction in New York, but there were no serious bidders. At the last minute, my billionaire boss stepped in and placed a bid for his own company of $20M, and the Judge sold it back to him. The creditors, holding notes or accounts billed at around $150M, let it go for $20M. Not long after, the BLM lost interest in prosecuting the billion dollar claim, as well. So then I was working for a different company, but the same man.
This is the sort of thing I expect from a Donald Trump. Nothing different from at least Hillary for sure.
So anyway, that's when I bought the farm and hung up my shingle over the Bonneville cave, the guru of the salt flats.
