Washington Post Diversifies... Into Boilers

The Wallstreet Journal ^ | July 19, 2013 | WILLIAM LAUNDER

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MEDIA & MARKETING Updated July 18, 2013, 7:35 p.m. ET

Washington Post Diversifies... Into Boilers Publishing Company Buys Industrial Unit from United Technologies

By WILLIAM LAUNDER

It's not uncommon for an industrial company to seek some glitz by buying into media and entertainment. Washington Post Co. WPO -0.11% may be the only media company going in the other direction—adding soot and grease.

The company on Thursday said it is buying a maker of parts for industrial furnaces from United Technologies Corp. UTX +0.48%

[KeyLargo]

Another dying news rag from the dead tree media going broke and turning away from Obama approved Green companies to a furnace company for help. LOL!

Forney

A new Post product: a duct burner

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The state of the news media 2013

July 17, 2013

From the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism.

In 2012, a continued erosion of news reporting resources converged with growing opportunities for those in politics, government agencies, companies and others to take their messages directly to the public.

Signs of the shrinking reporting power are documented throughout this year’s report. Estimates for newspaper newsroom cutbacks in 2012 put the industry down 30% since 2000 and below 40,000 full-time professional employees for the first time since 1978.

Via: http://mediapoliticsinperspective.wordpress.com/2013/07/17/the-state-of-the-news-media-2013/

[Buckeye McFrog]

They own 51% of a home health care and physical therapy outfit here in Pittsburgh.

[Ben Ficklin]

That's a very profitable business because there are no bricks and mortor. And paid for by medicare.

I hired one for my father back in 09. It was a mess and I fired them. I looked them up on the internet and discovered that the company was owned retired senator Breaux and retired congressman Tauzin in La. I suspect they had something to with it in Congress.