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Opening Arguments

Star power

Sadly, I was not invited:

An all-star list of progressive and liberal media folks came to the White House today to chat with President Obama over coffee in the Roosevelt Room.

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Those there included the Washington Post

Comments

Tim Zank
Tue, 12/20/2011 - 10:09am

Like any good boss around the holidays it's important to throw a little appreciation party for all departments, especially the advertising department, after all they bring in the most revenue (votes).

littlejohn
Tue, 12/20/2011 - 12:28pm

Dubya had a warm relationship with Fox News. I hardly see any cause for outrage, much less surprise.

Tim Zank
Tue, 12/20/2011 - 2:54pm

No outrage or surprise on my part at all, or any one else's for that matter. We're used to it.

Harl Delos
Wed, 12/21/2011 - 9:54am

Leo, I wouldn't take it personally. All those individuals work for mass media outlets. There are no city newspapers there, only national ones, and an afternoon newspaper?

A year or two ago, the Journal-Register company shut down a bunch of weeklies in my area, and I took a look at the company's financials. They had something like 40 daily newspapers, hundreds of weeklies and a couple of magazines, but at the price at which the company was trading, all the company's stock had a total value of $85,000.

With an established relationship with advertisers, and names residents recognized, J-R was in a good position to set up internet television stations in each of their markets. Think of it as a 24-hour local news channel, with lots of air time to broadcast high school sports. Would people watch their school's Friday night game if they had to wait until Saturday for it to be posted? I think so, even if they attended in person. Would beer distributors and car dealers advertise in those broadcasts? I think so.

I think local internet news television is inevitable - and $85k to get a jumpstart in that business is piddling - but if you get dozens of markets, not just one, it's the bargain of the century.

Save youe pennies, Leo. McClatchy might offer the News-Sentinel up for sale one of these days for $49.95.

Andrew J
Wed, 12/21/2011 - 1:47pm

the news-sentinel is owned by ogden newspaper, which pubishes Grit.

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