YIKES!  On April 14th, 2008, Think Progress reported this information:

Today, the Associated Press announced at its annual meeting that Rupert Murdoch, chairman and chief executive officer of News Corp., is joining its board of directors. Three other media moguls are also joining the board, including Sam Zell, who recently “took control of Tribune Co. after leading a buyout that resulted in the publicly traded company becoming private.”

I guess this sort of thing wasn’t reported in the papers, was it?