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more about #mortzuckerman more comments → SarahHeartburn: While part of me is relieved that fewer obnoxious brats will be warming all over downtown like roaches, I'm sure the truly undeserving will still find... more » ___: If this means there will be less NYU students cutting me in line at the Angelika and hogging all the seats at Dojo I'm all for it. I still remember th... more » son of spam: Well, I guess Madoff wasn't all bad. What could be more annoying than undergraduate debaters? more » BadUncle: Or maybe Zuckerman can declare his newspapers independent of the United States, and open a full online casino. more » GuyBitchy: Oh, yes. The media here is so blatantly biased in favor of the Palestinians. They have such a powerful lobby in Washington, and so many friends who ow... more » Pope John Peeps II: It's funny but I've reached a point in my political existence where listening to either an Israeli or a Palestinian is equally distasteful. When I mee... more » Botswana Meat Commission FC: Whoa motherfucker. Let's just examine the month of January (during the fighting in Gaza): Israel Total killed: 13 Soldiers killed: 10 Civilians killed... more » Smitros: Bad for the News? more » saythatscool: "Outrages like these do not make it into the Western media, which exhibit the familiar phenomenon of monitoring only the conflicts that are the flavor... more » ObtuseIntolerant: Every time I look at that Miley 'n' Friends picture, I end up the most pissed at the guy doing the Charlie Chan thing with his hand in front of his mo... more » BadUncle: Mickey Rourke and Courtney Love: two broken-down wads of meat joining into a loaf of love. more » MrInBetween: It is not a coincidence that Mickey and Courtney have gotten together the same week that two satellites have collided in space. The satellites were in... more » mathnet: Kate Hudson, I thought I already despised you as much as was civilian-to-star possible. Rich people's bathrooms are supposed to be tranquil, spa-like ... more » J. Frank Parnell: The whole Mickey Rourke-Courtney Love thing doesn't bother me. If you think about it, Mickey is the only human being that hasn't seen some part of Cou... more » Not The Red Baron: "Madonna and A-Rod have been burning up the phones," reports the insider, "and she keeps on insisting that Jesus is just a PR stunt." Rabbi Ciccone ha... more » -
#fallout
Mort Zuckerman's NYU Scholarship Students Are Bernie Madoff's Latest Victims
Last December, when Bernie Madoff's victim list was made public, we learned about Daily News publisher Mort Zuckerman's "significant exposure" to the swindler's Ponzi scheme, about $30-million in "significant exposure" to be exact. Now the pain is really setting in. More » -
#journalisism
Mort Zuckerman's Plan To Save Newspapers Will Be Foiled By His Inability to Do Math
Mort Zuckerman thinks letting newspapers run bingo games will save journalism. Let's see if his own newspaper is competent enough to run promotional games! More » -
#putzes
Mort Zuckerman Unmasks New York Daily News as Anti-Semitic Rag
New York Daily News publisher Mort Zuckerman unleashed a screed yesterday on the Huffington Post about how the media never covers how bad it is for Israelis dealing with Palestinian terrorism. He should know. More » -
#gossiproundup
Madonna Mad She Couldn't Help A-Rod With Steroids
Madonna wishes Alex Rodriguez was crying on her shoulder. Meanwhile, a Los Angeles woman is offering her support to hundreds of thousands of traumatized Miley Cyrus victims. More » -
#realestate
Mort Zuckerman Stuck with $980 Million Hole in the Ground
Lawyers vs. real-estate developers? It's a fight almost everyone else wins. Boston Properties, the real-estate empire of U.S. News publisher Mort Zuckerman, has given up on a 39-story tower in Hell's Kitchen. More » -
#maternitytest
Mort Zuckerman Is Proud New Daddy, But Who's the Mother?
Mazel tov to Daily News publisher Mort Zuckerman who at the spry age of 71 welcomed his second daughter, Renee Esther, into the world last Friday. Now, just who's the mother? More » -
#berniemadoff
Media Mogul Scammed By Hedge-Fund Hustler
Daily News publisher Mort Zuckerman is the latest billionaire revealed to have fallen prey to ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff. How many of Rupert Murdoch's papers does it take to cover the story? More » -
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#rupertmurdoch
Old Man In A Hurry
Rupert Murdoch's 78th year has been busy. With the exit of the Wall Street Journal's native managing editor, Marcus Brauchli, the Australian media mogul's lieutenant now has a free hand to turn the business newspaper into a broader national title. We're hearing this afternoon that Daily News owner Mort Zuckerman has dropped out of the bidding for Newsday, clearing the way for Murdoch's News Corporation to take control of a third newspaper in the New York market. And the New York Post is this week shrinking to allow the News Corporation tabloid to be produced on the same presses as the Journal. But here's the question: why the rush? There are three main reasons: newspaper publishing economics; the broader synergies available to a media group with heightened political influence; and mortality. More »
