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 The transaction occurred against the backdrop of a tidal wave of negative public opinion around McCourt, who had been perceived as a guy who bought a team he couldn’t afford with debt, and proceeded to reduce payroll to make ends meet – turning...  So, to sum up, McCourt charmed his way into buying the Dodgers, weakened the team in the 8 years that he owned it, and then walked away with $1. So we have a guy who buys your baseball team, is able to do so apparently because he has the right rich friends to back him, not because he has amassed this wealth himself, and then reduces the fan experience in order to pay that debt.  The price stunned the sports world in light of the fact that no baseball team had ever sold for an amount above $1 billion, let alone $2 billion.  But, with all the vitriol, I’ll bet it would surprise you to learn that over the period of his ownership (8 seasons) , McCourt’s Dodgers were actually 645-620 with 2 90-plus -win seasons and only two seasons below.  We are envious because it doesn’t look like McCourt “earned” that payout, and we are perhaps saddened because under his ownership, the Dodgers didn’t win a World Series.  One of major league baseball’s most important franchises was sold at a controversially high price.  But buying a company and squeezing more profit from it is supposedly the American way, or at least that’s what Mitt Romney should be saying on the campaign trail…. A couple of weeks ago, word came down that the beleaguered Los Angeles Dodgers had finally been sold for approximately $2. In 2011 the Dodgers applied for bankruptcy protection , which happens in baseball more often than you would think.

But the word “Fox” is not an acronym, and people who want to write it “FOX” — evidently trying to match the acronyms by which other networks (ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, etc. and re-branded, first as the Fox broadcast TV network and then in such cable spinoffs as Fox News Channel (FNC). You could see this throughout the 2012 campaign: The top guy on the Fox team, Carl Cameron, was always where the action was, while the other candidates got the “B Team. Coverage of the campaign by the dayside programs on Fox News, however, seemed to be dictated by behind-the-scenes producers who exhibited a clear bias toward front-runners and even — as during the ludicrous Donald Trump faux. It’s not Murdoch who makes the calls, but Roger Ailes and top executives and producers who are the shot-callers at Fox News. Scott Conroy does something here that annoys my inner copy editor, namely writing FOX in all caps, as if it were an acronym, which it’s not. The name originated as 20th Century Fox, a company that was purchased by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. Newt used to work for Fox.

Users will also be able to keep their Instagrams off of Facebook if they want to. “We think the fact that Instagram is connected to other services beyond Facebook is an important part of the experience,” Zuckerberg said. NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook is spending $1 billion to buy the photo-sharing company Instagram in the social network’s largest acquisition ever. That’s a fraction of the $118 that Facebook investors will be paying per Facebook user if the company gets its expected $100 billion valuation after going public. “This is an important milestone for Facebook because it’s the first time we’ve ever acquired a product and company with so many users,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote on his Facebook page Monday announcing the deal. Buying Instagram, he added, not only eliminates a rival but gives Facebook the technology “that is gaining crazy traction. They can make sure no one steps in their way and buy anyone who gets in their way,” said Wedbush analyst Michael Pachter, who follows social media. Facebook’s way, noted Pachter, has always been to buy technology if it’s better than what it can build on its own. Going by the $1 billion price tag, Facebook is paying about $33 for each Instagram user. Instagram’s fans, brand recognition and its potential are difficult to put a price tag on. Yet Facebook has – and can afford it. The company is preparing for an initial public offering of stock that could value it at as much as $100 billion in a... He said Facebook plans to keep allowing people to post from Instagram to other social networks.