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'The Purge' should top 'The Internship.' Tyler Perry lifts OWN.
After the coffee. Before getting ready for the cable show in D.C. The Skinny: I'm flying to Washington tomorrow for the cable convention next week. I'm such a good soldier that I'll stay with family rather than a comfy hotel near the convention center....
Tags: Tribune Company, OWN (tv network), Ethan Hawke, Satellite and Cable Service, News Corp.
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Ex-FCC Chairman Reed Hundt wary of Koch brothers owning L.A. Times
A former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission said rules limiting common ownership of newspapers and television stations in the same market should be gutted -- even if it clears the way for media mogul Rupert Murdoch to control more news...
Tags: Tribune Company, News Corp., All My Children (tv program), Television Industry, The Wall Street Journal
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Legislative leaders, unions oppose Tribune sale to Koch brothers
SACRAMENTO — California legislative leaders and 10 public employee unions announced opposition Wednesday to any sale of the Los Angeles Times and other Tribune Co. newspapers to a pair of wealthy brothers who fund conservative causes. In a...Tags: Oaktree Capital Management, Tribune Company, Government, Politics, Pension and Welfare
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Unions, lawmakers line up against Koch brothers
SACRAMENTO — California legislative leaders and 10 public employee unions announced opposition Wednesday to any sale of the Los Angeles Times and other Tribune Co. newspapers to a pair of wealthy brothers who fund conservative causes throughout...
Tags: Oaktree Capital Management, Tribune Company, Government, Politics, Pension and Welfare
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Koch brothers want to make your newspaper their megaphone
The people of Los Angeles would be up in arms if some out-of-town billionaires tried to buy the Dodgers and institute a rule that only right-handers could play on the team. Petitions would be signed, protests would be organized and politicians would...
Tags: Allentown, Tribune Company, Media Industry, Bankruptcy, Newspaper and Magazine
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Billionaires buy Wisconsin recall election for Scott Walker
Surrounded by dozens of supporters at an evening campaign rally in Madison on May 30, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, the Democratic candidate for governor in Wisconsin’s tumultuous recall election, had something encouraging to tell the crowd: The fact...
Tags: Government, Newt Gingrich, Tom Barrett, Regional Authority, Politics
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Watch out EPA, Fred Upton is on the debt 'super committee'
GreenspaceDebt "super committee": Rep. Fred Upton is named to the debt "super committee."... -
David Koch's chilling effect on public television
We seem to have entered an era of government snooping and censorship unsurpassed even by the dismal standard set four decades ago by President Richard Nixon. In recent days, we have discovered that the Internal Revenue Service targeted conservative...Tags: Entertainment, Tribune Company, Environmental Politics, PBS (tv network), Americans for Prosperity
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Pennsylvania Democrats strike out in bid to expand Medicaid to working poor
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania Democrats struck out Monday in their attempts to expand government-funded Medicaid health insurance to hundreds of thousands of working poor as part of the federal Affordable Care Act. First up was Sen. Vince Hughes, D-...Tags: Homelessness, Social Services, Bucks County, Parties and Movements, Jake Corman
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Expectation of Tribune Co. sale heats up
The Orange County RegisterThe anticipated sale of the Los Angeles Times and other Tribune Co. newspapers is shaping up as a battle of the titans, with at least four big-money bidders expected to be in the running for what media experts say could be a $1 billion deal. "It would...Tags: Freedom Communications, Inc., Tribune Company, Parties and Movements, News Corp., Property
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Cato Institute Medicaid column makes wrong point about Obamacare
I read with interest the Your View, "Corbett should stand by decision to reject Medicaid expansion," written by Michael F. Cannon, the director of health and policy studies at the Cato Institute. The Cato Institute raises some red flags for me as it was...Tags: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Health Insurance, Parties and Movements, Iraq War (2003-2011), Ayn Rand
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Koch confirms interest in newspapers; no comment on Tribune
The Wall Street Journal is reporting: Billionaire Charles Koch has confirmed that his company is considering acquiring newspapers, but he declined to comment on the possibility of a bid for Tribune's newspapers. Koch insists that any purchase would be...
Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, The Wall Street Journal
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