TV industry insiders say that Gannett, publisher of USA Today and about a billion other things, is set to announce the purchase of Freedom Communications for something north of $2 billion.
Freedom's flagship is The Orange County Register, long a bastion of free-market editorials. Freedom's TV stations will also be added to Gannett's broadcast arm, with little evident overlap.
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worried|6.19.03 @ 1:46AM|#
zoiks
If Gannett decides on a different editorial policy, this could mean a steep drop in the number of hard libertarian op-eds in the nation's most identifiably lib newspaper.
That would make me sad.
Warren|6.19.03 @ 3:01AM|#
AWwww CRAP!
LeFevre|6.19.03 @ 7:08AM|#
Another institution gets coopted, assimilated, and gets flushed down the toilet.
Is this what God meant when he created entropy?
|6.19.03 @ 7:34AM|#
LeFevre: Well yes, actually.
I beleive it was Buddha that stated, "All things are in a constant state of decay; strive endlessly."