Concern voiced on Cablevision purchase of Newsday

Wall Street's disenchantment with Cablevision Systems Corp.'s effort to buy Newsday , the paper in its Long Island backyard, has roots in the concern that owning a property in a "failing" industry could hurt ...

[new yorker]

Last paragraph of article:

"It provides the Dolan family with full control over the editorial debate/news media agenda on Long Island since it already owns the dominant television station, cable's News12. Secondly, it gives them leverage to directly monopolize the advertising agenda on Long Island, whether via digital or print, by offering one-stop shopping and pricing. Lastly, by acquiring the other properties that are part of the Newsday family -- any and Star Community Publishing -- it corners the market and helps them to better market and promote their entire entertainment and sports portfolio in a structured cross brand technique

EXACTLY why l don't think it's a good idea!!!!!!!

[sam sung]

Secondly, it gives them leverage to directly monopolize the advertising agenda on Long Island, whether via digital or print, by offering one-stop shopping and pricing... AKA, the prices of advertising will go up, just like you cable bill....

[Mr Sulu]

new yorker wrote:

Last paragraph of article:
"It provides the Dolan family with full control over the editorial debate/news media agenda on Long Island since it already owns the dominant television station, cable's News12. Secondly, it gives them leverage to directly monopolize the advertising agenda on Long Island, whether via digital or print, by offering one-stop shopping and pricing. Lastly, by acquiring the other properties that are part of the Newsday family -- any and Star Community Publishing -- it corners the market and helps them to better market and promote their entire entertainment and sports portfolio in a structured cross brand technique
EXACTLY why l don't think it's a good idea!!!!!!!

all bogus issues.

1. no one on LI pays attention to Idiotday's slanted, Jane Fonda like coverage.
2. no one on LI watches News12.
3. no one on LI reads any of those classifieds (in fact I don't even know what they are referring to).

Please Lord, let this idiot Dolan buy newsday and put it out of its misery.

[Yeah right]

"Structured, cross-brand technique" ... oh, like The Wiz?

[HarleyRider]

Maybe Isiah can run this combo into the ground

[LLL]

The Dolans need to learn o run a cable operation before moving into a newspaper operation.

[Long Islander]

Mr Sulu wrote:

<quoted text>
all bogus issues.
1. no one on LI pays attention to Idiotday's slanted, Jane Fonda like coverage.

2. no one on LI watches News12.
3. no one on LI reads any of those classifieds (in fact I don't even know what they are referring to).
Please Lord, let this idiot Dolan buy newsday and put it out of its misery.

Hey Su, all your points seem logical except for the
"Fonda style reporting," gimme a break man, it's 2008 - not 1968. Sheeeeesh.

[AZGMenFan]

Too much power for one person or organization. Do you really want ONE organization controlling every bit of media that enters your house? What your kids watch and read? There's a reason why they call it a monopoly! I can't believe that any government would allow such nonsense, but then that's why I moved out of Long Island.

[jim dolan is good]

please lord, make jim dolan the new owner of newsday! he's the right man for the job! he has the MAGIC TOUCH newsday needs! please lord, make jim dolan and newsday a reality! the people of long island beg you!

[www]

let cablevision buy newsday, have daddy give it to baby jimmy to play with, and watch as something else jimmy gets his hands on goes to pot. oh. i forgot... jimmy has lots of experience in the newspaper business... doesn't he?

[JAG]

F Newsday for deleting my post criticizing them and News 12

[Jesse]

Mr Sulu wrote:

<quoted text>
all bogus issues.
1. no one on LI pays attention to Idiotday's slanted, Jane Fonda like coverage.
2. no one on LI watches News12.
3. no one on LI reads any of those classifieds (in fact I don't even know what they are referring to).
Please Lord, let this idiot Dolan buy newsday and put it out of its misery.

I guess you would like Newsday, as bad as it is, to be run like News 12 which is the friggin pitts. The weather and commercial channel as I call it because out of one hour there is about fifteen minutes of news.

[realistic]

Moffett is wrong. The economic model of newspapers is not being eviscerated by the internet. It's being eviscerated by publishers and editors who knew how to take money from captive advertisers for their print product but don't have the smarts and imagination to come up with a workable business model to pay for free news on the internet. Tim Knight, take a bow

[Pablo]

realistic wrote:

Moffett is wrong. The economic model of newspapers is not being eviscerated by the internet. It's being eviscerated by publishers and editors who knew how to take money from captive advertisers for their print product but don't have the smarts and imagination to come up with a workable business model to pay for free news on the internet. Tim Knight, take a bow

Yeah, Ruppert Murdoch is a dummy right?

[Long Islander]

jim dolan is good wrote:

please lord, make jim dolan the new owner of newsday! he's the right man for the job! he has the MAGIC TOUCH newsday needs! please lord, make jim dolan and newsday a reality! the people of long island beg you!

Dolan's no more than a vicious sot.'nuf said. He and pappy Dolan behave like Stan and Ollie in all aspects.

[Long Islander]

jim dolan is good wrote:

please lord, make jim dolan the new owner of newsday! he's the right man for the job! he has the MAGIC TOUCH newsday needs! please lord, make jim dolan and newsday a reality! the people of long island beg you!

..."please lord..." gimme a griffin' break dude...if they take over, all they'll spew is the same candy coated nonsense reporting as the talkin' heads on News 12. Silva and cronies desperately need to retire or go start a retreat somewhere out east. Kids in H.S. journalism classes can write more accurately than the channel 12 rejects. Lokinkops.