Why Bloomberg would make an acquisition

Dylan Byers of Puck writes about why Michael Bloomberg would purchase one other media firm corresponding to The Washington Put up or The Wall Avenue Journal — despite the fact that the corporate stated no talks have occurred.

Byers writes, “Until Bezos wakes up one morning and decides to overtake the Put up, Mike Bloomberg often is the sole media entrepreneur with the ambition—and Bloomberg Information the only U.S.-based outlet with the infrastructure and monetary capital—to offer the Instances a run for its cash. And an acquisition of the Journal or the Put up may conceivably get him the subscriber base and cachet to start out that effort in earnest. A Journal acquisition would make Bloomberg the indeniable chief in enterprise and monetary information, whereas a Put up acquisition would confer unparalleled political affect, catapult the mixed asset into a worldwide information behemoth in a single day, and instantly make it aggressive with the Instances, if not superior. And positive, none of it might occur. However an $80-billion man can dream, and dream aloud.

“The one distinction between now and all these different earlier stories is that these days—with the Put up newsroom on edge and The Journal reeling from the defenestration of high editor Matt Murray in favor of Emma Tucker, a Murdoch favourite—it might not simply be Bloomberg’s dream. A whole bunch of journalists are in all probability going to sleep fantasizing about his potential possession, too.”

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