http://www.wbur.org/2009/06/18/globe-suitors-2
Who Wants To Buy The Boston Globe?
http://www.slate.com/id/2220736/
Doubting Twitter
http://thephoenix.com/Boston/News/85192-Weakened-watchdogs/
Weakened watchdogs
If the Globe shrinks, will Beacon Hill run amok?
http://blogs.wsj.com/privateequity/2009/06/17/on-the-logic-of-deal-making-in-the-dreary-newspaper-industry/?mod=rss_WSJBlog
On The Logic Of Deal-Making In The Dreary Newspaper Industry
http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/story.php?id=262938&ac=PHbiz
Developer to buy newspaper properties
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ombudsman-blog/2009/06/what_howard_kurtz_didnt_disclo.html
What Howard Kurtz Didn’t Disclose
http://www.poynter.org/forum/view_post.asp?id=13963
Full disclosure, please
http://www.johntemple.net/2009/06/good-question-why-didnt-i-do-at-rocky.html
Good question: Why didn’t I do at the Rocky Mountain News what I now say local newspapers should do?
HA!!!!
Well abb I tired, I really tired.
But darn-it there're these -- "Developer to buy Newspaper Properties." -- out there who've the same idea!! :o)
As for TV?
2,000,000+ people done gone missing, eh?
Sounds like a *great* story, to me.
IF the quislings ever get off their knees, outa the White House? Some clever quisling could look into the matter? Blame Rove, or better yet Booshhhhhhh. ;^)
BTW, was watching cable last night.
Noticed a *new* trend-scam.
Since you track every *&* anything media, perhaps in your journeys you'll run across this addressed at one or more of the websites you peruse.
FWIW: I've seen several "financial assistance" outfits, allegedly "law-firms", advertising on the shake-n-bake nets such as History Channel etc since around February.
Not the usual "Ronnie Duetch" scam, these are specifically tailored to the mortgage meltdown.
During the --usually-- 2 minute long ultra-professionally produced infomerical all kids of promises concerning solving their debt(s) are made. A somber, conservative banker-like white dude does the pitch, naturally. Must gain *trust*, y'know? :o)
OK, after the setup pitch? The scene flashes to none other than the zerO himself!!!!!!
It is speaking sometime in January '09 proclaiming, "help is on the way" thus implying the ad's an official outreach consecrated by the zerO, Itself!!
That was before last night's new *twist*, though.
The coup de gras appeared last night when I'd saw it for the first time . Everything mentioned above, of course; BUT, this time it's a *blond* (of course, what else).
Pathetic wench pitches government assistance for ANY debt exceeding $10,000 while superimposed via blue screen in front of the WHITE HOUSE!!!
BWWWWWHAAAAAAA!!!!
Anyone listening to Rush a few months back heard the call(s) from people who bit on these type of scams shortly after zerO claimed all kinds of federal funds would be made available to assist people in distressed mortgage situations.
These supposed law-firm outfits popped up like fleas. Easily located by searching official government websites IIRC. 800 numbers and/or hyperlinks provided en-mass, no doubt PAYING zerO & Co to appear there?
These scuz "law-firms" {spit} demand a nonrefundable $2,000 (+/- varies) up front payment to, "get the process started & paperwork filed".
A while later, after weeks of hearing nothing? The pitiful mark calls 'em wondering about the disposition of his/her "case". They're penultimately blown-off or otherwise puffed, and ultimately "learn" they "didn't qualify for assistance" for one reason or another!!
Of course they've lost their nonrefundable earnest dough, are in fact deeper in the hole than ever!!
Apparently, this is *perfectly* legal abb.
Keep your eyes peeled for this despicable ruse, my friend.
It's what the grrrrrrrreat TV/cable medium has become in what I presume a desperate effort to stay *alive*. ;^)
It would seem logical that the best buyer for the Globe would be the former owners..but the idea of Punch selling the payer for about ZERO back to the guy they gave $1.5 billion to a decade ago..well..that would be a tough one to swallow..