Media Industry (Print, Publishing, Digital etc.)

Re: Media Industry

Postby iam802 » Sun Oct 21, 2012 10:45 am

The risks is higher than the gains.

Just look at the share price of New York Times (NYT). Impressive?
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Re: Media Industry

Postby winston » Tue Dec 04, 2012 7:57 am

The Massive Power of the Alternative Media by Stuart Wilde

The big media networks NBC, ABC, CBS and CNN are dying, and the BBC in London has been ridiculed into submission because of their biased reporting of the Middle East and their protection of pedophiles in their midst.

Every few days another person at the BBC, or one of their performers gets himself arrested. BBC producer, Wilfred De’Ath was arrested along with comedian Freddie Star, and TV host Dave Lee Travis got nicked and Rolf Harris was questioned under caution on pedo’ charges.

Mind you it’s not all the BBC, the cops yesterday charged Coronation Street star Andrew Lancel with five counts of sexually abusing a child, he played Frank Foster in the ITV soap.

CNN has lost 60% of its audience in recent years. 60% of Americans no longer watch the major networks’ nightly news. In fact, RT (Russia Today) is ten times the size of CNN in viewers. People have had enough of the boring ideological rants and bias. The alternative media has gradually taken over.

http://www.stuartwilde.com/2012/12/the- ... ive-media/
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Re: Media Industry

Postby winston » Sun Dec 16, 2012 7:46 am

Social Media Censors Sites by Stuart Wilde

Here’s an article about how the Jewish social media sites, Facebook, YouTube, Google etc, censor items that might be critical of Israel or the war in the Middle East.

It’s all about sustaining the Grand Lies, hiding facts and obscuring the truth, but it won’t work in the end. The exposes have begun and people are so much more aware than they used to be.

It is said Facebook is a front for Mossad and that all the private information people post is stored on data bases in Israel. We are surrounded by a massive betrayal, and it’s also said all the bank account details and passwords are also in Israel, so they could clean out the world’s wealth over night.

But in the end it comes right and humans are set free of it all. Never offer information about yourself, and if you have to in order to to get on a site for some reason, then post fake info or avoid sites altogether that seek information.

From washington’s blog

“Unreliable News Sources”

The mainstream media skews the news to defend the status quo, and serves the interests of the rich and powerful.

But at least web news sources are free of censorship … one would hope.

Unfortunately, that’s not true.

Facebook pays low-wage foreign workers to delete certain content based upon a censorship list. For example, Facebook deletes accounts created by any Palestinian resistance groups.

Digg was caught censoring stories which were controversial or too critical of the government. See this and this.

Many accuse Youtube of blatant censorship.

Reddit – the 133rd most popular website worldwide on the Internet – is also censoring.

I’m not talking about censoring specific websites (For example, I was informed today that Reddit’s News category censors all stories from this website. But that’s just an example). I’m talking about censoring entire categories of news media.

Specifically, Reddit’s WorldNews category has 2.5 million subscribers. Most tv news shows have less than 2.5 million daily viewers. So that means that Reddit’s WorldNews is itself a mainstream media source in terms of numbers. And many more people see WorldNews stories on the front page of Reddit, even if they are not subscribers to the WorldNews subreddit.

(Reddit is owned by the 46th largest company in the United States – Advance Publications – which owns a number of mainstream newspapers and magazines.)

Yet WorldNews censors blogs, and doesn’t consider them real news sources. Here’s a discussion I had recently with WorldNews moderators:

Clipboard02 Biggest Social Media Sites Censor Alternative News

In fact, the top independent experts in every field – economics, business, foreign affairs, military, science, energy, etc. – have their own blogs, making blogs one of the best sources of information, a good way to fact-check the mainstream news, and the best way to read the experts’ insights direct and unfiltered. See this, this and this.

Indeed, the whole reason that news blogs have become popular is that they get around the censorship which is ubiquitous in the mainstream television news. And social media is popular as a news source – especially among youth – because it pretends that it provides uncensored news, where a free market of popularity governs.

That’s obviously not the case, where specific websites – and entire classes of media, such as blogs – are barred.

Reddit holds itself out as a young, hip, progressive news source. But if it is censoring blogs, it fails to live up to any of these claims.

The government already censors and manipulates social media. More proof here and here.

It is sad that the moderators of the social media sites themselves are doing the same thing.
s is an article about how the jewish social media sites Facebook, Google, Yahoo, censor the internetto make sure no adverse comments are posted.

http://www.stuartwilde.com/2012/12/soci ... ors-sites/
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Re: Media Industry

Postby winston » Sat Feb 16, 2013 5:19 am

Who Tells You What To Think? By Michael Snyder

Somewhere around 90 percent of the “information” that we are allowing to be endlessly pumped into our heads is owned by just 6 gigantic media corporations.

So could it be possible that the thousands of hours of “news and entertainment” that you are allowing these gigantic corporations to fill your head with each year is having an effect on you?

Does the mainstream media have more control over you than you ever dreamed possible?


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Postby iam802 » Mon Feb 18, 2013 9:40 pm

This should be a blast from the past.

It was posted in the forum some years back and now its back.
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Reader’s Digest Files for Chapter 11, Again
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Bad news keeps coming out of the magazine business.

Reader’s Digest Association said in a filing late Sunday night that it is filing for bankruptcy for the second time in three and a half years.

The publisher of Reader’s Digest, a staple of doctors’ waiting rooms, said more than 70% of its secured noteholders have agreed to convert $465 million in debt to equity in a “prearranged” restructuring plan it hopes to complete within six months. It said it has secured a $105 million bankruptcy loan from a group of senior creditors.

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In my opinion, this is a strong warning for those vested in the Publishing industry.
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Re: Media Industry

Postby winston » Sun Feb 24, 2013 8:25 pm

“Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed.

Everything else is public relations.”


– George Orwell
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Re: Media Industry

Postby winston » Thu May 23, 2013 6:20 am

7 Things About The Mainstream Media That They Do Not Want You To Know

By Michael Snyder


Source: The Economic Collapse Blog

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Re: Media Industry

Postby iam802 » Tue Aug 06, 2013 10:25 am

Jeff Bezos buys The Washington Post for $250 million in cash

http://www.engadget.com/2013/08/05/jeff ... n-in-cash/

Some big (and surprising) news in the media industry today: The Washington Post has just confirmed that it and its affiliated publications have been acquired by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos for $250 million in cash. The paper notes that Amazon itself "will have no role in the purchase," and that Bezos "will buy the news organization and become its sole owner when the sale is completed, probably within 60 days." It also goes on to explain that the existing Washington Post Company, which owns a number of other businesses (including Slate), "will change to a new, still-undecided name and continue as a publicly traded company without The Post thereafter."

In an interview with the paper, the Post Co.'s chief executive, Donald Graham, says that "The Post could have survived under the company's ownership and been profitable for the foreseeable future. But we wanted to do more than survive," adding, "I'm not saying this guarantees success but it gives us a much greater chance of success." In a letter to Post employees, Bezos, who was apparently one of several suitors considered by the company, says that he "won't be leading The Washington Post day-to-day," but that "there will of course be change at The Post over the coming years," and that "we will need to invent, which means we will need to experiment."

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Re: Media Industry

Postby iam802 » Wed Sep 18, 2013 5:28 pm

Another example that the Publishing industry (on the magazine/books sector) is a sunset industry.

And Delaware as I know is also a tax haven.

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Penthouse publisher FriendFinder files for bankruptcy

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/ ... RO20130917

(Reuters) - Maybe sex doesn't sell that well after all.

FriendFinder Networks Inc, publisher of Penthouse magazine and numerous adult-entertainment websites, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Tuesday.

The company, which sought to combine social networking and sex, said it had struck a deal with noteholders that will reduce its debt by $300 million if approved by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware.

Under the plan, one group of noteholders will take ownership of the sex entertainment business, which traces its roots to the late Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione. As is typical in bankruptcy, shareholders will likely be left with nothing.

Control of the company would go to Andrew Conru and Lars Mapstead, two noteholders who sold various social networking websites to FriendFinder in 2007.

802: So,they sell money to the company and use their profits and lend it them again. After bankruptcy, they will gain control of all its rights. Not bad. Good move.

Through a network of thousands of websites, FriendFinder provides live video, chat rooms, and photo and video sharing. It also sought to tap the powers of social networking with websites such as adultfriendfinder.com, which promoted casual sex, and bigchurch.com, which aimed for spiritual connections.

The company and its affiliates comprise a global network of more than 8,000 websites with 220 million members and 750,000 subscribers, according to court documents.

But while Facebook, LinkedIn and other social sites have boomed, FriendFinder's limped. Its revenue in the year ended June 30 totaled $293.70 million, down 10 percent from the previous year.

Hardest hit was the company's social networking websites, where revenue fell 17.6 percent, according to court filings. Some of that drop was offset by a 7.8 percent rise in live interactive video revenue.

Ezra Shashoua, the company's chief financial officer, blamed the lower revenue on a drop in membership and increased advertising costs for affiliates, according to court documents. Shashoua also said credit card companies had refused to process transactions for the company's Internet businesses. No reason was given.

FriendFinder has not turned in a net profit since at least 2008, according to Thomson Reuters data.

The company was formed by Marc Bell and Daniel Staton in 2003 when they acquired out of bankruptcy the publisher of Penthouse, Guccione's racier rival to Playboy. In 2007 the company bought Various Inc and its dating websites from Conru and Mapstead for $400 million.

A year later it filed with regulators to raise $460 million in an initial public offering, but when it finally completed the IPO in 2011, FriendFinder raised just $46 million.

In 2010 the company offered to buy rival Playboy Enterprises Inc for $210 million. The deal fell through.

FriendFinder said in U.S. Bankruptcy Court papers it plans to issue cash and new debt to holders of $234 million of first-lien notes. It also plans to cancel about $330 million in second-lien notes and issue new stock to those debtholders, who will own the company when it exits bankruptcy if the plan receives creditor and court approval.

FriendFinder said the plan was supported by 80 percent of its noteholders but has not yet been put to a creditor vote.

Bell and Staton, who resigned their executive positions with the company last year, each agreed to a $500,000 cash payment to end their consulting agreements with the company, according to court documents.

Earlier this year, LodgeNet Interactive, which provided adult films and video games to hotels and their guests, filed for bankruptcy, partly due to Internet competition.

The FriendFinder case is PMGI Holdings Inc, Case No. 13-12404, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, District of Delaware.

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Re: Media Industry

Postby iam802 » Sun Apr 27, 2014 10:59 am

This is worth a read.

Felix Salmon, a top financial journalist, leaves Reuters to join a startup called Fusion.

Read it to get an understanding of the changing dynamics for news and media.
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