Posted on 01/30/2005 8:48:22 AM PST by sitetest
DENVER (AP) A media company owned by billionaire investor Philip Anschutz said Wednesday it will launch a free, six-day-a-week newspaper in the Washington, D.C., area on Feb. 1.
The Washington Examiner, a tabloid, will replace three suburban newspapers that Anschutz's Clarity Media Group, bought from Journal Newspapers Inc. last year for an undisclosed sum.
The Examiner will be published Sunday through Friday and will tailor some news and opinion pages for residents in the District, suburban Maryland, and northern Virginia.
The company said home delivery will also be available in parts of Washington, a rarity for a free newspaper in a big media market. It is planning an initial daily circulation of about 260,000.
(Excerpt) Read more at editorandpublisher.com ...
What do folks know about this? A quick search of topics at FR reveals the owner is possibly a conservative Republican?
Is this an attempt to add a widely-read and truly conservative voice to the Washington, and national media?
sitetest
This is some news that I think may be of interest to Washington area folks. Could you ping some folks to this?
Thank you.
This looked to me like an interesting story for Washington area folks. If you wouldn't mind pinging a few folks, I'd appreciate it.
Thanks.
"... it will launch a free, six-day-a-week newspaper..."
You get what you pay for.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1306757/posts
A related thread from December.
Does anybody know if this Anschutz guy is from the same family who tried to run the livestock business out of Colorado?
Dear tgslTakoma,
Thanks.
I listen to WGMS, and have heard ads for this newspaper for the last week or two, and kept thinking to try to google on it. The article above is one of the results therefrom.
I live in Anne Arundel County, so I doubt I'm going to be one of the folks who gets home delivery, but I will be on the look-out for it in places like 7-11.
sitetest
A quick search of topics at FR reveals the owner is possibly a conservative Republican?
God I hope so!! I'd like to see more fair and balanced news in print-and free to boot. Cool!
I was wondering if maybe he was the same Anschutz of "Anschutz rifle" fame.
Dear gimmetlibertee,
Here is an interesting story on Mr. Anschutz:
http://getreligion.typepad.com/getreligion/2004/11/who_is_philip_a.html
Apparently, he is a conservative Republican and an evangelical Christian.
From this, may I deduce that he is not a "country club" primarily fiscal conservative Republican, but rather a social conservative?
sitetest
Thank you for that bio. He is of the same family who attempted to chase the livestock industry out of Colorado. It seems he purchased some land in the mountains for a retreat,, then decided the rancher who'd been there forever shouldn't feed livestock.
Common sense says whoever was there first has first rights. And if you want to control the land across the fence you'd derned best buy it.
City folks,,, especially city folks with money, seldom understand this philosophy. It doesn't matter what their political affiliation is. They think they can buy everything they want.
He was successful in spearheading dramatic changes to Colorado livestock regulations, but failed in his attempt to drive them out completely. Of course he denied wanting to drive them out completely, but the regs he was supporting would have done exactly that.
I found the info in post # 14 equally informative.Thanks.
He must not know that feeding livestock produces great natural fertilizer.
Hays, Kansas is "city folks?"
Dear Iowa Granny,
I was hoping to focus more on the new newspaper and the politics that might possibly lie behind it.
However, in googling on the subject you mention, I'll note that he wasn't trying to "drive livestock business out of Colorado." He had a dispute with a neighbor who was a hog farmer, and got involved in the politics of hog farming. The legislation that he backed in Colorado was opposed by large hog farming operations, but endorsed by others, including "traditional farmers," according to this link:
http://www.denver-rmn.com/extra/campaign/news/1104hogs.shtml
As well, folks who sold stuff to hog farmers also were against the legislation. But when put to a vote in referendum, it passed.
Here, apparently, was the nexus of the problem:
"Unlike cattle feedlots, where manure is solid and can be trucked away, hog farms use large lagoons to hold manure washed from barns. Neighbors have complained about the smell and worry about leaks into their water wells."
The new legislation approved at referendum required, "the state will have to add waste management and odor control rules and hire a staff to inspect the hog farms."
For the record, another intiative appeared on the ballot at the same time that would have increased regulation of ALL livestock enterprises, but Mr. Anschutz supported, with a $100,000 donation, the one that only increased regulation of hog farming.
Finally, as to being "city folk," he was born in Great Bend, KS, which as of 2000, had a population of about 15,000 souls. He grew up in another major metropolis, Hays, KS, 2000 population of about 20,000.
He started out in that typical urban profession of oil drilling, and made his first fortune there. Here is a quote from a Washington Post profile from November, 2004:
"Anschutz first struck it rich in the oil fields of Wyoming and Utah and then proceeded to sink his wealth into a variety of investments."
Yep, he sure is a real city slicker. (Link to article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A808-2004Nov20.html )
sitetest
spin it any way you want to. He certainly was not living in Hays Ks in a 3 room bungalow when he took on the livestock industry.
And anyone who thinks that cattle feedlots do not drain runoff after a rain is delusional.
Regulations on livestock should apply to ALL species. Anything otherwise is simply supported for political reasons.
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