Comments on: RBI Sale At Risk Of Falling Through As Bidding Price Drops To $1.7 billion http://paidcontent.org/2008/10/10/419-rbi-sale-could-fall-through-as-price-falls-to-17-billion/ The economics of digital content Fri, 13 Dec 2013 18:54:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Marty http://paidcontent.org/2008/10/10/419-rbi-sale-could-fall-through-as-price-falls-to-17-billion/#comment-64081 Fri, 24 Oct 2008 04:52:37 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2008/10/10/419-rbi-sale-could-fall-through-as-price-falls-to-17-billion/#comment-64081 Rafat,

I'm afraid that Sporto is right here. Your coverage of the RBI sale has been dreadful. It has involved paraphrasing others' reporting – and then claiming that this paraphrasing was visionary.

Don't worry about it though – I don't think even proper journalists have got this one right. The FT has only recently reported that RE absolutely HAVE to sell RBI. Doesn't matter what the price is, and the price is no indicator of the old media market in general – but has everything to do with RE's debt profile.

Perhaps there is a story here – perhaps you can be bothered to get off your ass and write it. I predict a sale within 2 weeks.

]]> By: Rafat http://paidcontent.org/2008/10/10/419-rbi-sale-could-fall-through-as-price-falls-to-17-billion/#comment-64080 Mon, 13 Oct 2008 02:49:08 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2008/10/10/419-rbi-sale-could-fall-through-as-price-falls-to-17-billion/#comment-64080 Having a bad day, sporto, are you? Hope you weekend was better…thanks for correcting the error, btw.

]]> By: Sporto http://paidcontent.org/2008/10/10/419-rbi-sale-could-fall-through-as-price-falls-to-17-billion/#comment-64079 Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:35:32 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2008/10/10/419-rbi-sale-could-fall-through-as-price-falls-to-17-billion/#comment-64079 Your coverage of this deal is pathetic. Please tell me that your business model is something more than reading real reporters articles and then regurgitating what they say by moving their words around.

You must have at least one original thought in your tiny little head, mustn't you? Somewhere in there? Maybe?

Naaaa

Then, to top it off, you can't even copy the words correctly. Read your first sentence you moron. You wrote "half-million" when I hope you know it should read "billion".

Time to get your old job back at Starbucks you looser.

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