Selling out. Doesn’t it make more sense to keep the valuable real estate and profitable shares in sports franchises and sell the thing that’s actually losing money, i.e., the frickin’ newspaper itself? But that would mean that “Pinch” would have…..

That explains it. Well, here’s to the continued success of your team against my Red Sox during the regular season.

Besides the popular Major League baseball team, NESV also owns their iconic stadium, Fenway Park…

No wonder the beers are warm and cost a flippin’ fortune!!!

On December 26th, 2008 at 7:22 pm, ajmontana said:
All things Red Sox suck.

Easy there, AJ!

On December 26th, 2008 at 7:37 pm, denver republican said:

If I owned a broken-down Pinto and a smooth-running Lexus, I wouldn’t sell the Lexus to subsidize the Pinto. Just sayin’.

You qualify for the Dragged Knuckle Award! Unfortunately that disqualifies you from any bailout money; your solution is not esoteric enough-sorry.

And I quit actively watching pro-sports back when players started making $1 million/yr and then still went on strike.

The only pro-football games I have EVER been to, were gratis tickets. And I think I only paid for 3 baseball tickets 15+ years ago.

Never been to a hockey or basketball game.

Now refresh me as to why am I taxed for new stadiums?

On December 27th, 2008 at 9:12 am, tim zank said:Don’t kid yourself, there’s still a market out there for adults who like to read honest reportage, we just have very few choices right now.

Don’t know all the details behind them but what I’ve read over the past few weeks from the Baltimore Examiner has been pretty even keeled. Hopefully they can stay the course.

Maybe they’ll stay in business long enough to write their own epitaph.

ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE (mo-lone lah-veh) Translation: Come and take them!

On December 27th, 2008 at 8:19 am, SixDegrees

I’d like to think the good ol’ American entreprenurial spirit will kick in and replace the debt laden news sources like the above mentioned with content people are willing to pay for (see reporting NOT opinion foisting).

My guess is, this is an opportune time for someone to ‘create’ a newspaper hybrid with no left-tard agenda.

Don’t kid yourself, there’s still a market out there for adults who like to read honest reportage, we just have very few choices right now.

Biased or not, there is nothing to replace the reporters fielded by these newspapers. The much-vaunted blogosphere certainly can’t – they are little more than repeaters and extended opinion sections which gather little if any news on their own.

As printed newspapers fail, they are increasingly moving their content online – where they can still make some money, but where their main interest lies in reducing expenditures, as they eliminate publishing costs. And as they eliminate reporters, and increasingly become little more than outlets for an ever-consolidating pool of wire services. If the trend continues, within a couple of years all the news you run across will be produced by AP or Reuters. The wire services, in turn, are fielding fewer and fewer actual reporters, and rely almost entirely on press releases for their content instead of publishing actual news.

Overall, this trend is extremely disturbing. Democracy cannot thrive without access to information; what’s left is an ideological tyranny masquerading as democracy while perverting all it’s trappings through control of the media. And there is no replacement currently in sight – as noted, the blogosphere fields few, if any, reporters, and is largely a cheering section for the fringes on both extremes – in other words, a perfect tool for tyrants.

Be careful what you wish for.