Local hate site operator and St.
Augustine and Johns County Republican PR director Michael Gold
(“Historic City News”) reports that Gannett is ”interested in”
buying the St. Augustine Record and Florida Times-Union.
.http://www.historiccity.com/2013/staugustine/news/florida/st-augustine-record-may-be-sold-soon-34507
Michael Gold, who advocates a boycott of the Record, does not name any source for his February 26, 2013 assertion, which is headlined "St. Augustine Record May Be Sold Soon."
St. Augustine Record Publisher Ron Davidson responded at 1:38 PM today to my E-mail question two minutes earlier, stating “It is not accurate and I
know of no discussions or negotiations. Thanks for asking.”
Efforts to obtain any kind of comment from GANNETT have been unavailing for more than four hours.
As found by the 2011 investigation by St. Augustine Underground (published by the Milwaukee Journal),, Michael Gold mainly prints political, government and PR propaganda handouts, calling them news.
However, Michael Gold was recently right in stating that St. Augustine City Commissioners were inclined to vote for the return of Donald Crichlow to City Commission, to replace the resigned Commissioner William L. Leary. Crichlow got the vote, 4-0, on February 11, 2013, so I would not dismiss Gold's GANNETT story as entirely unlikely or impossible. However, as of 2:18 PM, it remained unconfirmed, and denied in writing by the Record's Publisher. (UPDATE: As of 10:38 PM, it still remains unconfirmed).
Morris Communications and GANNETT have done business before, in 2004 trading some of Morris' Tennessee newspapers for some of GANNETT's Georgia newspapers (the way children trade baseball cards).
What do you reckon?
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