Warren Buffett doesn’t get the newspaper business
Clay Shirky predicts that many of the Media General papers that Warren Buffett just acquired will soon have reduced both print days and their newsroom staff. “His commonsense approach to saving papers won’t work, because there is no longer any commonsense business model for a former monopoly that is still seeing its revenues erode faster than its costs.”
* Warren Buffett’s newspaper purchase (shirky.com)
* No comment from Buffett on Neuharth’s retirement suggestion (4th item) (omaha.com)
* Earlier: Buffett’s letter to editor and publishers (JimRomenesko.com)
