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charles apple
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Joined: 09 Mar 2004
Posts: 3734
Location: Norfolk, Virginia
Posted:
Tue Mar 08, 2005 6:31 am
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Editor & Publisher's Joe Strupp posted last night a brief profile of Washington Examiner publisher Philip Anschutz:
| Quote: | Why would a multibillionaire who owns a slew of businesses — from fiber-optic communications to a professional hockey team — want to launch a chain of free daily newspapers? For those who know Philip Anschutz, the Denver-based mogul who's been described as both the nation's "greediest executive" (by Fortune magazine) and "very, very generous" (by former Colorado Gov. Dick Lamm), the answer is simple: It's good business.
But if you want Anschutz, who owns The Examiner in San Francisco and the recently launched Examiner in Washington, D.C., to tell you why, good luck. The 64-year-old businessman, whom Forbes rates as the 33rd richest in the country, has not given an interview in more than 30 years. |
Read more at E&P:
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000828909
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charles apple
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Joined: 09 Mar 2004
Posts: 3734
Location: Norfolk, Virginia
Posted:
Thu Mar 10, 2005 8:20 pm
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Erik Wemple of the Washington City Paper reports:
| Quote: | The house in question belongs to Matthew Morrissey, a fiery Arlington [Va.] denizen who has forged a contentious relationship with the area's new tabloid. Since last September, Morrissey has issued five pleas to the Examiner—and its corporate predecessor, the Journal—to stop delivering the free newspaper to his home. After each plea, Morrissey again got unwanted early-morning plops on the lawn.
On Feb. 12, Morrissey went public with his frustrations, testifying before the Arlington County Board on the Examiner's delivery policies, in an appearance covered in the Arlington Sun Gazette. In his statement, Morrissey recounted his trouble getting satisfaction from the Examiner. "The problem is that they are littering our neighborhood, and our front yards, with newspapers we do not want," said Morrissey in his statement.
After his board appearance, Morrissey ceased receiving the Examiner. "Only after going to a public meeting and outing these guys did it stop," he says. "Not every citizen has the time to do that."
Fourteen Arlington citizens, however, have had time to send flaming complaints to county authorities. Some of the complaints include the residents' exasperated entreaties to the Examiner, and their tone can't be boosting morale at the fledgling paper's editorial offices. On March 4, for example, Arlington resident Jeanne Briskin included this line in an e-mail to the Examiner: "Stop delivery of the examiner to my home...immediately. I did not request it, and do not want it, at all, ever."
Like Morrissey, Briskin reported no luck in getting the paper to cut off delivery and wasn't pleased about handling disposal duties. "I do not want to clean up what I consider to be trash that you dump on me," wrote Briskin to the Examiner. |
Read it in the Washington City Paper:
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/archives/media/2005/media0311.html
This item via Romenesko:
http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45
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