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Lauren Rich Fine was the most powerful media-stock analyst on Wall Street for more than a decade. She built her career telling newspapers how to maximize profits to boost share price, then retired a year ago. Thursday she delivered an unusual message:
Make less money. Get off the stock exchange.
Lauren Rich Fine was the most powerful media-stock analyst on Wall Street for more than a decade. She built her career telling newspapers how to maximize profits to boost share price, then retired a year ago. Thursday she delivered an unusual message:
Make less money. Get off the stock exchange.
A story in the Globe and Mail deals a bit with media stocks. A quoted analyst suggests investors are comparing today's economic crisis, vis a vis media advertising, to the aftermath of the dot-com crash in 2001-2003. That might be, sort-of, good news ... but the analyst warns it's going to get worse if there's a recession.
The big news is that Internet connections are listed tenth of items to cut, last, in the report by Solutions Research Group. There's no analysis in the story of online versus dead-tree readership of magazines and newspapers. If online advertising does not collapse, could Internet readership -- the shift that has caused so many of our woes -- become the proverbial silver lining for journalism?
I'm ever the optimist. Or maybe the fool...
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