{"id":119672,"date":"2019-11-13T12:28:31","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T20:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=119672"},"modified":"2019-11-13T13:21:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T21:21:00","slug":"who-owns-the-las-vegas-review-journal-not-adelson-says-lawyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/who-owns-the-las-vegas-review-journal-not-adelson-says-lawyer\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Owns The Las Vegas Review-Journal? Not Sheldon Adelson, Says Lawyer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sheldon Adelson<\/a> does not own the Las Vegas Review-Journal<\/em>, according to the newspaper\u2019s lawyer, Randall Jones, The Las Vegas Sun<\/em> reports.<\/p>\n

\"Sheldon
Sheldon Adelson was unmasked as the owner of the Las Vegas Review Journal in 2015 by the paper\u2019s own reporters. (Image: casino.org)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This is despite the paper printing a disclaimer stating \u201cThe Review-Journal is owned by the family of Las Vegas Sands Corp. chairman and CEO Sheldon Adelson\u201d after every article that references Adelson or Las Vegas Sands.<\/p>\n

Jones was addressing Clark County District Judge Timothy Williams in the latest hearing of a civil case<\/a> brought by the Sun against the R-J. The lawsuit accuses Adelson, his son-in-law, LVS CFO Patrick Dumont, and the R-J of violating antitrust laws by allegedly trying to put the Sun out of business and achieve a newspaper monopoly in Nevada.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, Jones argued that Adelson and Dumont should be exempt from providing electronic documents requested by the Sun\u2019s lawyers because \u201cwe haven’t identified who the owners are of the R-J.\u201d<\/p>\n

“It is my general understanding that Mr. Adelson is not an owner of the R-J,” Jones added.<\/p>\n

This prompted the Sun to declare in its reporting Tuesday that if this were the case, \u201cthe R-J has been guilty of misleading its readers.\u201d<\/p>\n

R-J Carries Sun<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The Sun\u2019s lawyers hope the electronic documents in question will confirm their suspicion that Adelson and Dumont were behind the decision to redesign the R-J\u2019s print edition in a way that reduced the Sun\u2019s splash on the front page, in which it promotes its content.<\/p>\n

Since 1989, the two publications have operated under a 50-year joint operating agreement (JOA), authorized by the federal Newspaper Preservation Act (NPA).<\/p>\n

This legislation allowed newspapers in the same market to share production and distribution costs, provided they remained competitive and editorially independent of one another.<\/p>\n

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The Sun is distributed as a section of the R-J. It believes, by reducing the size of the splash, R-J is in violation of the JOA.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

R-J recently sued to extricate itself from the JOA, claiming it was the Sun that was in breach of contract, a move the Sun\u2019s lawyers called \u201cbaseless and unlawful.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Sun believes R-J wants out because it knows tearing up the JOA would bury the smaller newspaper, which is economically dependent on the R-J.<\/p>\n

Mystery Buyer<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Jones asserted Tuesday that “neither Mr. Adelson nor Mr. Dumont attended any meetings related to the Sun box redesign,” because they are not R-J employees.<\/p>\n

“They are third parties,” he added, as reported by the Sun. “There’s another entity, News+Media, so, technically, I think there would have to be a subpoena to that entity. I’m happy to have a meeting to look at this and see what evidence they have to show that Mr. Adelson or Mr. Dumont are implicated in the redesign of the Sun box.”<\/p>\n

The mysterious News+Media acquired R-J in December 2015. It required the sleuthing of the R-J\u2019s own reporters to discover the identity of their new boss and splash the news across the front page: the Adelson family was now pulling the strings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sheldon Adelson does not own the Las Vegas Review-Journal, according to the newspaper\u2019s lawyer, Randall Jones, The Las Vegas Sun reports. This is despite the paper printing a disclaimer stating \u201cThe Review-Journal is owned by the family of Las Vegas Sands Corp. chairman and CEO Sheldon Adelson\u201d after every article that references Adelson or Las […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":119682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,32093],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nWho Owns The Las Vegas Review-Journal? 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