Carlos Slim: The NYT's Sugar Daddy Not So Sweet on the Press

Meet Carlos Slim Helu the man who provided the New York Times with its current $250 million lifeboat. He has a “complex relationship” with the news media — he declined to be interviewed for the NYT article about him — and is “notoriously thin-skinned.”

With telecommunications, retailing and construction companies under his command, Mr. Slim looms large over the media landscape in his country. Notoriously thin-skinned, he does not have to pick up the phone and bellow at those who publish and broadcast something he does not like.

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