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LVRJ sold?

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by Inky_Wretch, Dec 10, 2015.

  1. JayFarrar

    JayFarrar Well-Known Member

    Anyone who thinks this will be a mystery in few days is a fool or has no basic understanding of how the media works.

    All manner of national and regional media outlets will pursue this until they get an answer.

    It is just too juicy to not do something.
     
  2. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    Depends on how many people know who the owner is, right?
     
  3. Football_Bat

    Football_Bat Well-Known Member

    LMAs happen all the time in the radio biz. Don't hear about them much in print media though.
     
  4. wicked

    wicked Well-Known Member

    With a radio LMA, you can cut costs by sharing a cluster's staff, studio space, etc.

    Here, what are the savings from this arrangement? Corporate HR? Ability to buy newsprint and supplies in bulk? A cheaper AP subscription? It's much more limited.
     
  5. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    Yeah, it seems like this deal is simply a "I/we want to own it and have no infrastructure or any on how to run a newpaper's daily operations."
     
  6. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

  7. JayFarrar

    JayFarrar Well-Known Member

    I'd be much more inclined to believe it was some casino guy who doesn't want his name on it.

    I know this isn't the pure journalism response but if you own the joint, you can do whatever the hell you want.

    There's consequences, of course, you can lose prestige or business or readership or employees but if I owned a paper, and wanted something in it, then it would be in the paper, unless the editor could convince me otherwise.
     
  8. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    Yeah, there is this perception that it hasn't been that way throughout the life of newspapers, but really only in the past 30-40 years has impartiality/objectivity been any sort of consideration for the editor. Citizen Kane wasn't just made up out of nowhere.
     
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  9. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

  10. wicked

    wicked Well-Known Member

    I sure hope they're unionized.
     
  11. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    This is such a weird situation. Publishers may once have been in it as a strict business proposition, but obviously not anymore. So people buy newspapers for prestige, to become public figures, either as movers and shakers who get to shoot their mouths off through the editorial page or as civic benefactors like the people who give money to the opera. That's true of both Boston papers, and Jeff Bezos sure didn't buy the Post as a get-richer quicker scheme. But here we have a publisher or publishers who wish to remain anonymous, even to their employees. Everything printed in the R-J will become fodder for a guessing game for the whole city. In its way, this is a brilliant publicity stunt.
     
  12. TigerVols

    TigerVols Well-Known Member

    Is there any doubt that it's Sheldon Adelson? He already owns a paper in Israel, and he's just the sort of looney tunes who would demand secrecy.
     
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