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Date Posted: 04:20:42 11/02/09 Mon
Author: Shampoo
Subject: Re: Sleight of Hand
In reply to: Kid Tribbie 's message, "Sleight of Hand" on 15:28:19 11/01/09 Sun

Read Terry Southern's novel "The Magic Christian" and note the character of Guy Grand. It pretty much explains the entire rationale (if one can call it that) for Dick Scaife, what and why he does what he does.

> >href="http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/ne
>ws/s_650932.html">http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pitts
>burghtrib/news/s_650932.html

>
>They have to buy other papers to pad their numbers,
>don't disclose how many they outright GIVE away, make
>a big to-do about one of the week's least-read days,
>Saturday.
>
>The article declares,
>
>"The Trib made inroads Saturday largely by pushing in
>where the P-G pulled out. In the last 12 months, the
>P-G stopped delivering in several outlying markets,
>which the Trib then captured, said Ralph Martin, chief
>executive of Trib Total Media, which publishes the
>Tribune-Review."
>
>Okay, but why didn't you identify those "outlying
>markets" specifically, Ralph? You should be bragging
>about this in detail instead relying on your usual
>"Baghdad Bob" rhetoric.
>
>Morton is right about one thing, though. If Scripps
>would have waited to tank the JOA with the PG, the PG
>would have been history and the Press, for many years
>the better of the two papers, would indeed own the
>market. No one ever accused the Scripps folks of great
>intellectual depth, though.
>
>And hey, hey, Ralphy-boy! If things are so good in
>there why all the unpaid furloughs, buyouts and such?

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  • Re: Sleight of Hand -- Good Gawd, 11:05:07 11/04/09 Wed

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