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Deadline for Boston Globe bids postponed
bostonherald.com via AP ^ | 7/7/09 | AP

Posted on 07/07/2009 11:06:58 AM PDT by GQuagmire

BOSTON — The Boston Globe’s owners have postponed a deadline for potential buyers of the newspaper to submit their initial bids.

The New York Times [NYT] Co., which owns the Globe, had set a Wednesday deadline for nonbinding bids.

But the Globe reports Tuesday that Goldman Sachs & Co., the investment banking firm hired to manage the sale, has told interested parties they will be given more time to prepare offers for the Globe and the Worcester Telegram & Gazette.

(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bostonglobe; msm
Translation: Either no bids or extremly low bids
1 posted on 07/07/2009 11:06:58 AM PDT by GQuagmire
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To: GQuagmire

I guess if you can sell a dead pedophile you can sell a dead news paper.


2 posted on 07/07/2009 11:10:55 AM PDT by dblshot
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To: GQuagmire

$5.00


3 posted on 07/07/2009 11:11:40 AM PDT by IbJensen (If Catholics voted based upon the teachings of the church, there would be no abortion and no Obomba.)
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To: GQuagmire
I got $7.23... if I win the bidding my first Headline for the Globe will be :
OBAMA BORN IN KENYA!!
'Bush/Republicans Right All Along'
4 posted on 07/07/2009 11:15:45 AM PDT by theDentist (qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
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To: GQuagmire

Or Rush Limbaugh is the current highest bidder and they don’t want him to win. He could change it to a profitable conservative paper and that scares the he!! out of the Northeast libs.


5 posted on 07/07/2009 11:19:24 AM PDT by Two Kids' Dad (((( ))))
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To: GQuagmire

I can’t bid any money but I can offer a life time free subscription to the paper.


6 posted on 07/07/2009 11:31:35 AM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: Two Kids' Dad

Apparently Rush will be in New England one day this week on his golf vacation around the country.( hopefully not today, raining again) Coincedence?


7 posted on 07/07/2009 11:36:30 AM PDT by GQuagmire
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To: IbJensen

“$5.00”

$4.99 to much


8 posted on 07/07/2009 11:41:54 AM PDT by DaiHuy (One Big Assed Mistake America)
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