{"id":3208,"date":"2013-03-13T09:09:20","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T13:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=3208"},"modified":"2013-03-13T09:09:20","modified_gmt":"2013-03-13T13:09:20","slug":"koch-brothers-mulling-l-a-times-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2013\/03\/koch-brothers-mulling-l-a-times-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"Koch Brothers Mulling L.A. Times Bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/koch.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3209\" alt=\"koch\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/koch-300x210.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/koch-300x210.jpg 300w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/koch-150x105.jpg 150w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/koch.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two of the world&#8217;s richest &#8212; and most controversial &#8212; brothers are considering a bid for the Los Angeles Times.<\/p>\n<p>David and Charles Koch, billionaire industrialists who own Koch Industries, America&#8217;s second-largest privately held company, have expressed interest in the Tribune Co. newspapers. The Chicago-based empire emerged from a long bankruptcy Dec. 31 and has hired investment firms Evercore and JPMorgan Chase as offers have come in for its print properties.<\/p>\n<p>The Koches, who some sources say are interested in the clout they could gain through the Times&#8217; editorial pages, could bid on their own or combine in a bid with\u00a0Doug Manchester, the San Diego real estate magnate who bought the San Diego Union-Tribune in November 2011.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/koch-brothers-mulling-la-times-427612\" target=\"_blank\">Koch Brothers Mulling L.A. Times Bid &#8211; The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two of the world&#8217;s richest &#8212; and most controversial &#8212; brothers are considering a bid for the Los Angeles Times. David and Charles Koch, billionaire industrialists who own Koch Industries, America&#8217;s second-largest privately held company, have expressed interest in the Tribune Co. newspapers. The Chicago-based empire emerged from a long bankruptcy Dec. 31 and has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[1664,1665,656],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3208"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3210,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3208\/revisions\/3210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}