The big player in the industry happens to be one our great grandparents used to depend on when they had to dash off a telegraph to folks overseas in the 19th century: Western Union ( WU).

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Instead of hustlers telling credulous investors what returns they could expect, investors told hustlers what returns they had to deliver, based on their own analysis of information made freely available by new media outlets working off the power of the telegraph.

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The Telegraph secret recording that led to his being taken off the deal was now "water under the bridge", he said, although was critical of the newspaper's tactics.

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Hollinger International's poison pill, if Delaware's chancery court declares it legal in the next few weeks, would spoil his deal by diluting the Barclay brothers' voting control down from 73% to 20%, meaning that they would not be able to stop the board of Hollinger International selling off the firm's assets, which include Britain's Daily Telegraph.

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Until a few years ago, most of the big English papers had an understanding to stay off each other's turf: the Times in Mumbai, Hindustan Times in Delhi, Telegraph in Kolkata (Calcutta) and the Hindu in Chennai (Madras).

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