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January 25th, 2010 at 8:34 am
Just because the individual subsidiaries are profitable, that does not mean the parent company is.
The parent put itself into incredible debt to buy a bunch of the subsidiaries just before the economy tanked.
By converting their debt to equity, the parent makes itself much more solvent with little impact on the subsidiaries.
The people who invested in the company lost. That’s the market, there’s always risk in any investment and thats how it should be. Take away risk and the system breaks (re: health ins).
Now by being part owners, those investors will have a different point of view, and maybe the future of these papers is looking better (especially with the Supreme Court ruling last week).
January 25th, 2010 at 10:06 am
Where does “(re: health ins)” come in? What are you intimating there?
January 25th, 2010 at 10:14 am
As more and more people are “forced” into the health care system the risk to investors in insurance companies is reduced considerably.. while the need for innovation and efficiency is also lost.
January 25th, 2010 at 10:42 am
I’m still not sure I get what your point is. How is it exactly that this phenomenon ‘breaks’ the market system?
January 25th, 2010 at 11:32 am
From poynter.org:
What might happen at the JOAs (Joint Operating Agreements) in which MediaNews is involved
Reflections of a Newsosaur
Alan Mutter writes that the MediaNews Group bankruptcy filing may give CEO Dean Singleton the argument he needs to persuade the Justice Department that his distressed business has to exit the various JOAs, so as to be able to scale back to a single paper in order to remain viable.
I am not able to load “Reflections of a Newsosaur” due to firewall blocking at work but here is the URL pointing to the rest of the story for anyone else:
http://newsosaur.blogspot.com/2010/01/next-for-medianews-rolling-up-ailing.html
January 25th, 2010 at 12:45 pm
I take exception that I have been rooting for the demise of the Lowell Sun! I have never done so!
I might have been rooting for the demise the career of a particular editor, but that is a different story…
Plus that’s all about *saving* the newspaper, not hoping it dies! I would love to be a subscriber of a better paper! Even the dead tree version! If only they would get better leadership.