David Zurawik, the Baltimore Sun television critic, argues that the landscape has changed.
Politician's son dabbled in family's modest publishing business before launching Sun TV when India's satellite television market opened up in the 1990s.
One of the funniest -- yet most perceptive and provocative -- news-conference questions I've ever been aware of was asked in the 1970s by Ron Powers, who was then the brilliant young television critic of the Chicago Sun-Times.
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Murdoch already owns Britain's biggest daily tabloid newspaper, The Sun, as well as U.S. news television network Fox.
Rupert Murdoch's media empire, which includes Fox Television in the US and the London Times and the Sun newspapers, has shown strong profit growth.
So have talk show host Oprah Winfrey, as well as Marcy Carsey, Thomas Werner and Caryn Mandabach -- the team that created the hit television shows Roseanne, The Cosby Show and 3rd Rock from the Sun -- who have agreed to provide original programming.
Thought to be complicating bids is the issue of Tribune's large array of holdings, which includes newspapers like the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and Baltimore Sun, along with other assets like the Chicago Cubs baseball team and several local television stations.
The acquisitive Murdoch, whose company owns The Times of London, the Fox television and movie studio, and racy tabloids like the New York Post and The Sun in Britain, would logically be interested in adding the lustrous reputation of The Wall Street Journal to his stable of properties.
The Tribune Company owns the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun, and eight other daily newspapers, as well as the Chicago Cubs and more than 20 television stations.
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