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Who'll buy Gannett?

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by pressmurphy, Aug 10, 2007.

  1. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    Mark Cuban, so he can institute all the changes to newspapers he writes about on his BLOG!
     
  2. Cuban would never do it - too much overhead for his tastes.
     
  3. JayFarrar

    JayFarrar Well-Known Member

    Yahoo is the most visited site in the world, it isn't going away anytime soon.
    Google is ranked third internationally but it has competition in the global search world.
    Sites like Baidu and qq.com are big overseas, even if I can't deciper their respective languages.
    A national brand in USA Today. Established market papers, and their sites plus the TV stations means Yahoo could get into national advertising campaigns, plus despite what some think, paper still beats both rock and web. Can't handle scissors though.

    Oh and according the New Yorker, Bloomberg feeds its employees for free as well.
     
  4. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    I know. But I'd like to see him try to run at least one paper.
     
  5. Thank you.
     
  6. Or ref a game.
     
  7. Bubbler

    Bubbler Well-Known Member

    Some holding company we've never heard of.
     
  8. Twoback

    Twoback Active Member

    With Yahoo! shares continuing to decline, I cannot see them taking on a newspaper-heavy business at this time and tanking its shares further. If Gannett gets bought, it's by private equity.
     
  9. Does the price include the bones of promising careers that are strewn throughout the Gannett empire?
    This chain needs a War Crimes Tribunal.
     
  10. Riddick

    Riddick Active Member

    Nice!
     
  11. Bob Cook

    Bob Cook Active Member

    It is possible to have both, in a way -- a private equity fund that has deep contacts within Yahoo, which then contracts to use it for projects that give it a platform for a major expansion in the news business. If market conditions don't improve for an IPO, then the fund sells it to Yahoo, if it is so interested.
     
  12. crusoes

    crusoes Active Member

    Damn you, Slappy, and your obtuse clues!
     
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