Big hurt: Washington Post's struggle

Media Life Magazine ^ | 3/17/06 | Barton Biggs

[potlatch]

In yesterdays Peanuts cartoon Pigpen came over to Charlie and showed him that he had put some 'burnt cork' under his eyes to help with the 'glare' [in the ballgame].

Charlie Brown said, "gilding the lily, huh?" It was cute!

[Grampa Dave]

If you own mutual funds which own WPO, NYT, or TRB stock, you may be at a financial risk.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1598732/posts

If your mutual funds own newspaper stock, you may have a problem
self, moneycentral.msn.com | 18 March 2006 | Grampa Dave


Posted on 03/18/2006 8:33:10 AM PST by Grampa Dave


To Jim Robinson, admin moderator, please excuse this vanity.

This is the only way of warning Freepers that their mutual funds may be invested in stocks of our enemies and real potential losers, the stocks of the lying, spinning and probable dinosaur fishwraps or newspapers.

Since, GW was re elected, the stock values of many of the major lying/spinning fishwraps have been falling like a rock dropped in a ocean.

This past week has been a very bad week for many newspaper stocks with the reports of less subscribers and the NYT and TRB may have their bond rating lowered by Moody's.

Most Freepers would never knowingly invest in the stock of these left wing enemies. However, many of these left wing fishwraps appear to massively owned by institutions and mutual funds. These mutual funds are probably holding up the value of the Enron type newspapers with the precious $'s from their investors.

Often these mutual funds are in our IRAs or 401K's or similiar deferred savings or in college funds for our children and grandchildren. Investing in these dinosaurs probably presents a clear present danger to our precious investment $s.

The links below will take us to MSN's money central for NYT, TRB and WPO, the NY Slimes, LA Slimes/Chicago Tribune and Compost. Once there you can see the institutional and mutual fund ownership of each dinosaur fishwrap.

http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/invsub/ownership/ownership.asp?Symbol=nyt

http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/invsub/ownership/ownership.asp?Symbol=trb

http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/invsub/ownership/ownership.asp?Symbol=WPO

The above links will work for any company, just delete the 3 letter stock symbol at the end and enter the stock code for the stock/stocks you are interested in.

[AndyJackson]

I think it is a better paper than the NY Times

Not when they regard a picture of a dog swimming in a fountain front page news. The only competition in their mind is when they catch Rumsfeld in an unguarded moment comparing islamofascists to Nazis.

[AndyJackson]

The worst is when you show up for work, here in DC, and the first thing people say is - boy did you see that article on page 2 of the Post on Saturday?

How do you politely say, uh - no, somehow I missed that when I walked past the newstand holding my nose at the wretched smell of offal wafting from the unoppened stack.

[defenderSD]

"How do you politely say, uh - no, somehow I missed that when I walked past the newstand holding my nose at the wretched smell of offal wafting from the unoppened stack."

LOL. Well spoken.