Philadelphia Inquirer During a July 2008 flight in Mayor Bloomberg's jet, "I tried to convince him to come down and buy The Philadelphia Inquirer and the Daily News," Pennsylvania Gov.
Ed Rendell tells The New Yorker. "I said to him, 'Mayor, only you can save the newspaper business in this country.' And, of course, his staff, they wanted him to buy the New York Times." Rendell's press secretary tells the Inquirer: "He was only kidding."
