Jeff Zucker was in a gracious mood when quizzed about RedBird Capital Partners’ failed takeover of The Daily Telegraph and Spectator titles today, saying simply, “You don’t get everything you want.”

“Not every deal is a straight line. It didn’t work out for a variety of reasons, and you have to accept that,” said the RedBird IMI CEO on his parent company’s abandoned deal for the Telegraph Media Group (TMG).

At the same time, he threw his backing behind The Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT) swooping to land the 170-year-old group for £500M ($655M) two weeks ago.

“The most important thing at this point is that the deal can get over the finish line in next few weeks,” he added today at Content London in the UK. “The folks at The Telegraph deserve that more than anybody – an owne

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