Rupert Murdoch is a multi-billionaire media mogul whose influence is known to swing elections. But, on Friday Murdoch tweeted out, for unknown reasons, that he had heard the Tribune Publishing Company could be bought by a "big Wall Street firm" and that the Los Angeles Times could be bought by a philanthropist. The Tribune Company, which owns more than a dozen newspapers including the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times and the Baltimore Sun has been struggling financially. Murdoch's tweet may be nothing more than sour grapes. Last year he had been rumored to bidding for the company, an idea he put to rest by tweeting that U.S. ownership laws prevented him from buying up the newspaper group.
It could also just be trolling a rival. The Tribune Company, which owns more than a dozen newspapers including the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Orlando Sentinel, and the Baltimore
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