Freedumb Communications, which owns the Bibleburg Gaslight, is expected to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection this week, according to the Wall Street Journal. Freedumb’s flagship rag, the Orange County Cash Register, popped up a story yesterday saying that discussions with lenders about restructuring $770 million in debt are “ongoing.”
Some people must be pooping in their pantalones over there on Prospect Street. G staffers have already enjoyed five unpaid days off this year, and the Cash Register has laid some folks off. A quick check of JournalismJobs.com finds, um, not much in the way of gainful employment for rumormongers. So it goes.
I don’t like Freedumb’s editorial philosophy, which is somewhere to the right of the John Birch Society, and quit subscribing to the G years ago. But an ink-stained wretch has to feel for his colleagues when the deal goes down. The ones who don’t write the editorials, anyway.
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Off topic: a link to pictures of Sundays Ride The Drive in Madison, WI
http://www.madison.com/wsj/forums/viewtopic.php?t=83403&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=30
The Bomb Town Monitor is often editorially to the right of Genghis Khan, but still prints reasonable letters to the editor and essays sent in by the local peanut gallery. It is the only way to find out what is going on around here, too. Would rather see it alive than dead, which is why we shell out an overpriced subscription check twice a year.
Same here with the Sioux City (fishwrapper) Journal. They limit folks whose views they don’t like to just one printed letter a month but at least they do print ’em! We pay the subscription fees to keep their reporters actually out there reporting on local stuff though I disagree with their “pro-business at any cost” (as in YES, build an oil refinery 20 miles away from us–just think of all the great paying jobs this will create) right-wing viewpoint. If they croaked we’d have to get our news from local TV news, which is REALLY bad!