Mayor Bloomberg Isn’t The Times’ Best Option

BusinessWeek

In spite of recent business pressures, most notably from Harbinger Capital Partners, BusinessWeek‘s Jon Fine finds the argument for a Times takeover by Mayor Bloomberg flawed.  Bloomberg built his business in New York by selling financial data to corporations and financial houses, not by running a newspaper.  Also, ownership by a local politician, even a non-partisan one, could call the paper’s objectivity into question.

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