Smith's interest appears to be in journalism.

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I will be buying it soon

Wish I could go back and find it, because it was in alignment with Smith's remark. To paraphrase, they basically said that the purchase of the paper would have no impact on its journalism, that they had no intention of showing bias in default to Adelson, and that if any readers detected bias, they were free to call the paper on it...and encouraged to do so.

will readers actually detect bias if the paper doesn't cover a potential scandal or criminal activity regarding Adelson? By omitting a potentially negative story about one of the GOP sugar daddies, it's something that will slip by most readers, and then the editors can say that "well, nobody called us about that story, so it must not have been important..."

I think they were talking more about flat-out endorsements while neglecting left candidates and issues (or putting a right slant on the ones they do cover).

Seemed like it was more of an attempt to disassociate themselves from any agenda Adelson might have, to assure readers that Rupert Murdoch hadn't moved in and set up shop.

A guy I worked with loved the Drudge Report and he said how it wasn't biased like Fox News because Drudge just puts in articles from different sources there... the guy was a Republican, but was open minded enough to admit that Fox News was biased for Republicans, but couldn't quite see how Drudge was biased.

so, I explained to the guy that if there are two politicians involved in separate scandals, but Drudge only links to articles about one politician, isn't that just as biased? While he agreed with my point, I don't think he stopped loving Drudge.

(I was thinking of Gary Condit vs Joe Scarborough at the time - the media was all over Condit, but hardly a peep was heard about a similar scandal involving Scarborough. You'd have thought the media would have eaten up two politicians with dead interns and how it's an epidemic in Congress, but no, barely a mention of Scarborough.)

It has been a Republican rag for decades.

Who knows, maybe they used it as their inspiration.

But it was a pledge to "tell all the news honestly." And they published it about 30 seconds after the ink was dry on the contract.

Behind netanyahu (Yay! My autocorrect changed netanyahu to metastasis). In that case he similarly gives away the most printed newspaper in Israel, and the sole purpose of the paper is to pimp netanyahu.

Fake journalists not so much.

... enriching themselves on the carcass of democracy in this country. Scum like Adelson and the Kochs have brought the nation to the brink of ruin, but their wholly-owned subsidiary, the Republican Party, rabid hyenas that they are, obstruct every effort to avoid a total collapse. I hate them with every fiber of my being. And I got a whole MESS of fibers!