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Anchutz Buys The Weekly Standard

By | 06.17.09 | 6:04 pm

Conservative media mogul Phillip Anchutz, and his Clarity Media Group, has bought the Weekly Standard from Rupert Murdoch’s NewsCorp. That greatly expands Anchutz’s beltway empire — he launched and owned the Washington Examiner, which has been beefing up its staff.

I asked Examiner opinion page editor Mark Tapscott whether More…