Sun-Times parent to buy Chicago Reader for $3 million.
I suppose it’s possible that it doesn’t include this site. I don’t really know. Just sort of news potentially about the site that folks might be interested in.
Damn. I guess my bid of tree-fiddy wasn’t high enough.
Dunno yet. Don’t know anything yet.
And the sale is not yet final.
Don’t worry unless/until we have something to worry about.
You can always panic/worry later on.
Stay tuned for further developments.
Meet you guys on Fathom.
Maybe.
Or not.
Will I get to keep my stock options?
I feel like one of those sleazy biker bitches “owned” by the Hell’s Angels (well, maybe the Pee Wee Herman’s version of the Hell’s Angels).
?? Why?
I’m wondering what interest they’d have in keeping the Straight Dope running. If the Sun-Times’ owners decide that this site isn’t worth the bandwidth…
Why would they do that? Can’t say what they would or won’t do but common sense should tell you a media company (this is Sun-Times MEDIA, after all), they’re looking for content. This is content. It’s meat, lots of material, a thriving message board. What’s not to like?
Even under the current circumstances, the site is profitable. Not Apple profitable, obviously, but the site is not losing money, neither.
Like I said, don’t panic until you have something to panic about. At this point we have zero information – might be a good thing, might be a terrible thing, might be nothing at all. It’s not even a done deal, it’s barely more than a rumor. Anything more, we don’t know.
You can always freak out when there’s something to freak out over. Anything now is premature. Sit tight and wait for further developments. Right now you know as much as we do.
Sixteen Tons keeps running through my head.
Hey, I been at this lathe for the last 16 years. (Yikes!)
But if we wait until the last minute, we’ll end up having to panic twice as hard in order to catch up.
I’m buying two towels. Just sayin.
I don’t care what anyone says, I am going to freak out right now, and then I am going to panic so hard. You just try and stop me and I will punch this kitten right in the mouth.
I peer into my crystal ball to see the future, and I see nothing but* skellingtons!* Skellingtons on fire!
I’m going to have to go ahead and sort of disagree with you there
I think it’s time to seriously think about going independent. Seriously. Donations accepted. Seriously.
Don’t worry about it. As of today, straightdope.com is #830 on the Quantcast top U.S. websites list, with 2.6 million unique visitors/month. (Google shows us at 3.9 million; don’t know why the disparity - supposedly these are both global figures.) Suntimes.com is #630, with 2.4 million UVs/mo. Assuming minimal overlap (safe bet), combined UVs are 5 million, which puts the company overall at #250 or so, just ahead of cbs.com. So by buying us the S-T turns itself into a much bigger online player.
Thanks Ed, for that. It’s good to see that you’re keeping that closely in touch with the pulse of this board.
This is pretty awesome, IMHO. There’s millions and millions of websites, and the SD is in the top 1000. That’s nothing to sneeze at.