Two days after employee buyouts that saw close to 80 longtime Los Angeles Times newsroom staffers and, according to some reports as many as 500 total employees, leaving the paper, Rupert Murdoch has today added fuel to speculation about the LAT’s future. In a tweet earlier this afternoon, Murdoch claims “strong word” that the Tribune Newspaper group is about to be sold, with the Los Angeles Times to be split off and sold to a group of local investors, including Eli…