Cablevision expected to announce $650M deal for Newsday

This story was reported by staff writers Mark Harrington, Ellen Yan, James T. Madore and Thomas Maier.

[Captain Lou Albano]

Cablevision is brutal. This makes an increasingly bad paper worse.

[Oh Boy]

Great. The only thing worse than the current crop of
liberals running the paper is the fact that it is going to be run by owned by morons.

[Revolutionary idea]

A few details being ironed out, huh. Didn't Murdoch say something similar last week?

[In the know]

There are a ton of things to hate about this deal. A terrible company owning a terrible newspaper and a terrible TV "news" outlet. NYTimes, you just won me as a subscriber. VZ-FiOS, I'm calling you tomorrow.

[LI Bri]

Bye Bye Newsday. I hope the purchase is a flop like MSG and 'The Wiz'.

[Lou T]

this is great news! the most retarded cable operator buying the most retarded newspaper.

I was hoping for Murduch but this is just as good. Idiotday will be out of business in about 3 weeks.

[realist]

In the know wrote:

There are a ton of things to hate about this deal. A terrible company owning a terrible newspaper and a terrible TV "news" outlet. NYTimes, you just won me as a subscriber. VZ-FiOS, I'm calling you tomorrow.

You certainly take a strong stance for someone who is reading the articles produced by Newsday and writing on a site that is owned by Newsday.So if you don't care so much why do you bother.

[Fed Up]

Let me be the first to cancel my subscription. I have bought my last copy of newsday

[Sue]

Hey Dolan, do you plan on keeping jobs on Long Island or do you like the fact that Newsday has outsourced many of its functions?

[Pat]

Lou T wrote:

this is great news! the most retarded cable operator buying the most retarded newspaper.
I was hoping for Murduch but this is just as good. Idiotday will be out of business in about 3 weeks.

There isn't that much difference between their news reporting. They're both race baiters.

[pennysaver deluxe]

Mr. Grabhorn, you will soon be introduced to a lawyer named Jerry Kauff. He is the Dolans' anti-labor attack dog. The Dolans will surprise you. They are worse than you can imagine. Kauff has employed a scorched-earth formula in all his dealings at MSG & Radio City. Good luck.

[michael]

so lets see.. jimmy dolan has ruined the wiz, the ny knicks, the ny rangers (actually they've always sucked) the west side stadium project and a movie theatre chain.. why not buy a news paper and ruin that too!!

I guess islander fans can expect the only paper to cover our hockey club to see our coverage slipped to a meager AP article.. if we're lucky

i'd wish lil jimmy dolan all the best but we all know nothing but disaster will come of any business move he makes.

[oh well]

enjoy life wrote:

Hope the micks dolans fire all the hebes writing for this zionist paper?
Happy now?

how does this ever get on line?

[sdel]

Thanks, to Verizon for competing with Cablevision, otherwise rate would be off the wall.
What we NEED is a competitor to Newsday, the ONLY Long Island newspaper. Maybe we would get more accurate, and timely reporting.
Dolan I hope you bring Newsday down. Maybe that will bring in competing papers to Long Island.

[John]

Isn't there some federal agency that's supposed to prevent monopolies from happening?

[Liberals are cool]

Well...at least they aren't owned by News. Corp.

Cablevision is horrible, but at least they aren't a part of a republican smear machine.

As Ranger fan I hope this will futher marginalize the Isles.:)