Wow. That is all I can say, Mike. I REALLY believe that the Blade will sell.
posted by MrsPhoenix at 11:40 A.M. EST on Wed Mar 15, 2006 #
"One corporation purported to have an interest in acquiring the newspaper is MediaNews Group, a communications conglomerate based in Denver that owns 40 daily newspapers in nine states."
Early this week, McClatchy bought Knight Ridder for $4.5 billion. McClatchy is expected to sell off 12 of its newly acquired newspapers, including the Akron Beacon Journal because "these papers are located in cities that "do not fit the company's longstanding acquisition criteria, chiefly involving growing markets." "
Somewhere I read this week that MediaNews Group was rumored to be interested in buying the Akron Beacon Journal.
But this story suggests:
"... the Akron Beacon Journal in Ohio, once the flagship of the Knight newspaper company, could catch the eye of Advance Publications Inc., which owns The Plain Dealer in nearby Cleveland, Ohio."
If The Blade goes up for sale, I wonder if Advance Publications would be interested?
posted by jr at 03:15 P.M. EST on Wed Mar 15, 2006 #
I'd prefer Gannett buy The Toledo Blade instead.
posted by HolyHolyToledo at 08:13 P.M. EST on Wed Mar 15, 2006 #
"Parts of two downtown Toledo streets will be closed today and tomorrow for crowd-control measures anticipated to accommodate applicants for strike-contingency work at The Blade, the city transportation division announced yesterday."
posted by jr at 01:30 P.M. EST on Thu Mar 16, 2006 #
Does a sale mean that the Blocks are admitting defeat?
If the Blade doesw sell, will the Blocks lose interest in furthering THEIR agenda via the local politicos?
I wonder...
posted by Hooda_Thunkit at 06:25 P.M. EST on Fri Mar 17, 2006 #
Wanted to dump this story somewhere.
"My theory is that we Americans have so picked and chosen our news that we have lost that comprehensive view of the world that only a newspaper gives. You may only read a few stories thoroughly, but you are inexorably exposed to ones you don't choose -- labor news in Detroit, deaths in Darfur, economic successes in Finland, a zoning excess in your own community."
"Whether you like it or not, all of those headlines and leads stay with you; they wash around your head and force you to be a bigger person than you are -- and to know and react to a world bigger than you are."
"Think a little further. If more Americans had had a comprehensive view of the world -- the kind that is irrevocably blurred by the 80,000 new blogging sites launched every week -- it would have been barely possible for the 30 people who in essence started the Iraq war to have acted without the accord of the American people."
"As, last week, the great Knight Ridder chain was sold, apparently to be broken up into component parts and resold, the newspaper industry fell into a deep fog. The bottom-line guys are taking over from the old family-owned newspapers with traditional news values and principles, and all they care about is making money, not news."
"That probing capacity to ascertain the depths of the conflicts we face is the kind of coverage they will first do away with. And we'll be stuck, alone and uninformed, in a society atomized in its news absorption, broken down into ever smaller and less effective civic parts, and finally more dangerously susceptible to the domination of the government -- and of war and peace -- by the ambitious few."
posted by jr at 07:25 P.M. EST on Tue Mar 21, 2006 #
Gannett? Why not just go all the way and have Wal-Mart buy our local paper.
posted by probegt at 01:04 P.M. EST on Fri Mar 31, 2006 #
Yes, as much as people growl about the Blade, it is still a unique voice.
Get ready for McNews.
posted by historymike at 02:04 P.M. EST on Fri Mar 31, 2006 #
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