Freedom's Just Another Word for...Gannett?

Jeff Taylor | June 19, 2003

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.

Comments

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."