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2006-04-20 Home Front Economy
NYT Faces Possible Shareholder Uprising
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Posted by Anonymoose 2006-04-20 11:11|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 "It is time for the company's board to combine the Class A and Class B common stock into a single class of common stock that would provide equal rights, voting power and representation for all shareholders," the MSIM statement said.

My preferred headline: Investment bank to NYT: "Power to the People, end Share Apartheid!"
Posted by eLarson 2006-04-20 11:32|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com]  2006-04-20 11:32|| Front Page Top

#2 I'd love to see Rupert Murdoch launch a hostile takeover, just to make the Angry Left squirm.
Posted by Mike 2006-04-20 11:52||   2006-04-20 11:52|| Front Page Top

#3 It comes axross to me as an angry child whining "You're not listening to me (Whine, whine) I'm gonna make you do it my way (Whine whine) I want the same thing the grownups have (Whine whine) YOU GOTTA GIMME (Whine whine)
Posted by Redneck Jim 2006-04-20 22:34||   2006-04-20 22:34|| Front Page Top

#4 Let the NYT crater. It will be an example of what happens when agenda drives a so-called news organization. Management compensation increases are sucking the assets out of the NYT. Soon it will be just a crab shell without any meat.
Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul  2006-04-20 22:40||   2006-04-20 22:40|| Front Page Top

#5 In related news - sharp decline in the parrot population in NYC. Also, people eating healtier - fewer dining on fish & chips.
Posted by DMFD 2006-04-20 23:30||   2006-04-20 23:30|| Front Page Top

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