The Times reports that Carl Icahn is militating to shake up Time Warner. Couldn’t happen to a nicer conglomerate. The company never did figure out how to spell sinergee cinergy synorgy synergy. The damned stock is as sleepy as AOL’s head of customer service. The future of media is small, not big. Time for this iceberg to calf before it melts.
First thought. Bond, James Bond.
I have my own little mess here. All this stuff gets merged and mixed together and then becomes a big monopoly. I talked with a guy who made 20 grand on Enron. He got out early, he wasn’t greedy. The rest of the power rangers lost a mint and people felt sorry for them. Be nice to the people on your way up, they are the same people you will meet on the way down. It’s nice to be important, but it’s still more important to be nice.
A little more disclosure, Jeff.
Jeff, your points are well taken, AOL/TW/Exxon/General Dynamic’s sleepiness is the best example of Levin’s greedy legacy. But might not your comments be best followed with a disclosure that as a former Time Inc’er you have a vested interest in the stock price?
Bloggers can be ethical, too, you know!
Gotcha, E.F.: I already had a link to my about/full-disclosure page (click on “damned stock”), which says I used to work there and still down the damned stock. As they say in the Prince spaghetti commercial: It’s in there. I have mentioned this so often in so many posts over the years, that I did not see the need to make a sentence out of it (and when I do, I piss off other readers who don’t like the repetition). In any case, I’ve disclosed everything about Time Warner except how much I’ve lost.
LOL! Laffing with you, not at you. By the way, this is a very good time to re-read Denby’s “American Sucker.” We are coming into another bubble, and many media outlets are doing their best to pump up the volume without critique. Cheerleading News Brings Cash…if youknowwhatImean.
Keep on rocking’ Jeff.
I &heart; Carl Icahn.
Hear him talk? That’s the sound of money. *ching*