From Deseret News archives:
Tribune sale the truth
Despite strong public denials by these parties, the Tribune's management company, Salt Lake Tribune Publishing (SLTPC), on the eve of going to court to try to stop owners AT&T from selling the paper, has launched a media blitz to propagate the thesis that Singleton is fronting for the church and the church-owned newspaper, the Deseret News, in a conspiracy to gain control of the Tribune. In a Sunday column in the Tribune, editor James E. Shelledy wrote: "Do I know (such premise) to be true in principle? Yes. Can I prove every detail? No."
The strategy is clear: to sue AT&T and attack the LDS Church.
Had the Deseret News wished to acquire the Tribune it may have done so. It was recently invited by the Tribune's owner, AT&T, to bid for the paper when AT&T decided to sell it. The Deseret News declined to bid. That left two entities invited by AT&T to bid for the Tribune the management company made up of family members and officers who formerly owned and sold the Tribune, and Singleton's MediaNews Group, which owns 48 daily newspapers in the United States. His newspapers have won five Pulitzer prizes for journalistic excellence, most recently one last year.
The Tribune management company asserts that the Tribune is a family heirloom of the Kearns-McCarthey family and that family members and partners who formerly owned it have the right to buy it. The Deseret News was advised that the family sold the heirloom in 1997, reaping the benefit of many millions of untaxed dollars. Now they want to buy it back under circumstances that may bring into question the earlier transaction.
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