SEATTLE --- Less than a year ago, Nevada’s largest paper, the Las Vegas Review-Journal, was sold as part of a group of seven regional newspapers for $100 million. This week, the reporters at the paper discovered it had been sold again. But the latest sale was exceedingly unusual. The Review-Journal was not part of a package deal. It was sold as
ANALYSIS: Casinos, Newspapers, Elections: If It Can Be Bought, Sheldon Adelson Will Buy It
The casino magnate is following the plays he wrote in Israel to achieve familiar results in Nevada: buy up media property, use that media to promote a pro-Zionist, pro-right wing agenda, and hope that the public votes according to what they read.