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hue

(4,949 posts)
Wed Jul 30, 2014, 10:09 PM Jul 2014

Journal Communications sold to Ohio ownership group (Blogging Blue)

http://bloggingblue.com/2014/07/journal-communications-sold-to-ohio-ownership-group/

Earlier tonight new broke that Journal Communications, the parent company of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, has been purchased by the E.W. Scripps Co. out of Cincinnati.

Two storied media firms, Journal Communications Inc. of Milwaukee and E.W. Scripps Co. of Cincinnati, announced Wednesday evening an agreement to merge their broadcast operations while spinning off their newspapers into a separate company.

Under the deal, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel will serve as the flagship of a new public company, Journal Media Group, which will be headquartered in Milwaukee.

Meanwhile, Journal Communications’ broadcast assets, including WTMJ radio and television, will be folded into Scripps, with the headquarters in Cincinnati. The E.W. Scripps Co. name will be retained and the firm will remain controlled by the Scripps Family.
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Journal Communications sold to Ohio ownership group (Blogging Blue) (Original Post) hue Jul 2014 OP
Nearly all media make their money off of corporate advertising. JEFF9K Jul 2014 #1
And that has been the case throughout most of our history. Jackpine Radical Jul 2014 #2
The Urinal still hasn't withdrawn their endorsement of Walker, pays Christian Snider to defend him. Scuba Jul 2014 #3

JEFF9K

(1,935 posts)
1. Nearly all media make their money off of corporate advertising.
Wed Jul 30, 2014, 10:26 PM
Jul 2014

Making them inherently conservative.

Jackpine Radical

(45,274 posts)
2. And that has been the case throughout most of our history.
Wed Jul 30, 2014, 11:14 PM
Jul 2014

The old Jeffersonian notion of a free press, able to pursue any story wherever it went, may never have existed, and in any case was dead by maybe 1840.

 

Scuba

(53,475 posts)
3. The Urinal still hasn't withdrawn their endorsement of Walker, pays Christian Snider to defend him.
Thu Jul 31, 2014, 08:58 AM
Jul 2014

What does that tell you?

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