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		<title>Which Facebook billionaire will buy NYT?</title>
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		<outline created="Sun, 11 Mar 2012 20:29:40 GMT" pgfnum="6276" text="&lt;img src=&quot;http://scripting.com/images/2012/03/11/t.gif&quot; width=&quot;125&quot; height=&quot;158&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; style=&quot;float: right; padding-left: 15px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;&quot; alt=&quot;A picture named t.gif&quot;&gt;Billions are flowing to founders of tech companies, and the tech companies themselves. The companies will all need &lt;i&gt;exclusive&lt;/i&gt; digital content. News stories. The kind of stuff produced by news organizations. Like the NYT."></outline>
		<outline created="Sun, 11 Mar 2012 20:57:40 GMT" pgfnum="6282" text="If Twitter, for example, offered exclusive access to NYT stories, if you had to go to twitter.com to read a NYT story, that would really screw with Facebook and Google. There aren't two NYT's to buy, just one. The first to realize the enormous value of the NYT flow will have a serious leg-up on the others."></outline>
		<outline created="Sun, 11 Mar 2012 20:30:42 GMT" pgfnum="6278" text="Further, do you think the Times could grow with a few billion cash injected, and a mission to screw profit and grow-grow-grow."></outline>
		<outline created="Sun, 11 Mar 2012 20:31:08 GMT" pgfnum="6279" text="I predict the existing news orgs will quickly be gobbled up by Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google, even Groupon and Zynga, and their founders. They are hugely undervalued."></outline>
		<outline created="Sun, 11 Mar 2012 20:31:58 GMT" pgfnum="6280" text="Unfortunately for the news orgs, they are unable to grow into this opportunity because ownership and management have no sense of adventure, no excitement for the future of the most exciting craft in the future, news. "></outline>
		<outline created="Sun, 11 Mar 2012 20:32:56 GMT" pgfnum="6281" text="A big transition is about to happen."></outline>
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