Posted on 05/03/2013 6:36:43 PM PDT by Kaslin
Maybe lose all their current advertisers, but get a whole bunch of new ones. It would be the “Rush Limbaugh effect”, otherwise known as “nothing succeeds like success”.
If they sell a lot more newspapers, the advertisers will come.
However, you are right that the Graham family that controls the company would likely never sell to a conservative.
Buggy whip enterprises that operate on the business model of catering to a declining customer base, aging white liberals with a guilt complex. The Chicago Trib is a POS outfit (a few good writers) that basically had as its model to call its customer base “racist” and only succeeded in driving away customers.
Maybe it'd be cheaper for the Koch brothers to wait for the Post to go under - then do a first rate conservative start-up. Tell 'old subscribers' they can get the paper free for 6 weeks - probably cheaper than buying the Posts' subscription list... Why buy something's that's been run into the ground - with all the baggage, liberal employees, and liabilities?
First question to the Washington Post? How many people get the paper for free. How many 'vanity' subscriptions... What percent of ads are radically discounted? Each subscription counts for exactly how many readers?
When the LA Times goes conservative and starts turning a profit - AND’s running conservative news - liberals will “When the LA Times goes conservative and starts turning a profit .... liberals will wake up to how they’ve treated us.”
Doesn’t work like that. Note that the Hollywood movies that make money are conservative. Has that caused Hollywood to make more clean, conservative movies? Advancing the agenda is the motivator, not whether people choose to consume the product.
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