Ashby posted a quick link about this the other night, but it’s worth giving it a little more play. Your liberal media is about to become even less liberal:
Right-wing funders and business industrialists David and Charles Koch may purchase the Tribune Company newspapers, which include the Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun, and the Los Angeles Times. The brothers are “interested in the clout they could gain through the Times’ editorial pages,” the Hollywood Reporter notes.
Knowing how the Kochs operate, they’re sure to make Rupert Murdoch look even-keeled.