Second Largest Newspaper Holding Company Hits Skids — Another company that cheapened its product and wound up broke. The end is near for a lot more papers.
Affiliated Media Inc., the holding company for MediaNews Group Inc., which owns the Denver Post, on Friday filed a plan for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization, the company announced.
MediaNews Group CEO William Dean Singleton had said on Jan. 15 that a filing was imminent.
Affiliated Media is the holding company for the MediaNews Group family of newspapers, the nation’s second-largest newspaper publisher by circulation. The company owns 54 daily newspapers — including the San Jose Mercury News, Salt Lake Tribune, Detroit News, St. Paul Pioneer Press and Los Angeles Daily News — and more than 100 non-daily newspapers, as well as websites, television and radio broadcasters that serve markets in 12 states.
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mourning in the morning… ok my brain hurts now… come here mouse, i has cheeze 4 u!
I see I’m not the only one wondering what is so sanctimonious about MediaNews.
What will the Pommies use to wrap their Fish and Chips, should this happen in England?
Heading quickly for a world where NewsCorp owns every paper, sets the terms of every debate, invites discussion from people it likes, eventually manufacturing news to sell advertising. And the blog-o-sphere is simply an editorial commentary by charismatic pundits.
# 16 deowll:
“What is the demographic of people that listen to radio and what are they listening to?”
I always have the radio on in the car; I like to listen to the local public classical station. There’s also a great station with a very eclectic playlist run by a local high school; they’ll play almost anything! I also read our local paper every day, but then I’m _old_ — I actually remember listening to some of the radio programs you mention. Some of my favorites were the CBS mystery shows.
I would miss the old Merc (San Jose Mercury News). Some excellent Silicon Valley coverage there.
The internet age didn’t kill the newspaper/prinmt media, it simply stopped it from continuing its practice of printing half truths and out right lies and claiming them to be NEWS pieces.
The newspapers are dying by their own hands, teh same hands they have been using to feed BS to readers for years who before the internet had no clue just how much spin was in the news they were being given.
The alternative media like Radio and INternet blogs has taken off and surpassing the traditional newspaper/print media and even TV because both are far better at relaying the actual news even if it is with comments. I’d much rather hear the news with comments addded that I totally disagree with then hear what is portaryed as news that is actually majopryl spun opinion and propaganda.
I don’t see anything here about the Toronto airport.