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To: 3AngelaD
And due to the ownership structure of the newspaper, there isn’t a damn thing shareholders can do about it.

True. And this goes a long way toward explaining the NYT stock price. Let's see: circulation is down, ad revenue is down, the print industry as a whole is down, the price of a share is going down, and the ownership structure of the company makes it so that a shareholder can't have any real input into how the business is run ...

Why would anyone own such a stock?

11 posted on 09/24/2007 8:18:00 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The broken wall, the burning roof and tower. And Agamemnon dead.)
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To: ClearCase_guy
"Why would anyone own such a stock?"

I give up. Because they need to own shares in NYT to bump their I-hate-Bush-more-than-you-do creds?

21 posted on 09/24/2007 10:42:40 AM PDT by libs_kma (www.imwithfred.com)
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