![screen-shot-2016-04-11-at-1-21-22-pm-e1460352188736[1].png_w=1056.png](https://i.imgur.com/Mwpj5Ej.jpg "screen-shot-2016-04-11-at-1-21-22-pm-e1460352188736[1].png_w=1056.png")
http://qz.com/658807/a-yahoo-daily-mail-merger-could-turn-the-internet-into-the-worst-kind-of-tabloid/
>The company that owns the British tabloid the Daily Mail—and its highly trafficked website—is exploring a potential bid for Yahoo with the help of a private equity backer, the Wall Street Journal reports (paywall). While the Daily Mail & General Trust is just one of dozens of players that may bid for Yahoo, if the company succeeds, news on the internet may never be the same.
>Any combination is likely to push the Daily Mail’s trademark brand of incendiary, lightly sourced, heavily borrowed tabloid journalism to Yahoo’s one billion worldwide monthly users. Yahoo’s over 50 local websites, many of them in local languages, help the company draw more total users than any other online company in the world after Google, YouTube, Facebook, and the Chinese search engine Baidu.
>The Daily Mail’s high volume of articles, attention-grabbing headlines, and photo-heavy articles have helped it become one of the world’s most-viewed English-language news sites, with more traffic than the New York Times, the Guardian, Huffington Post, and Buzzfeed, according to some measures.
>But the company’s numerous critics call it “shameless” and say its model relies heavily on taking other media outlets’ work, printing anonymously sourced gossip, trotting out sexist tropes, and often fanning the flames of religious, racial, and other divides. The company has been the subject of numerous lawsuits in recent years.
...
related:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-k-s-daily-mail-explores-bid-for-yahoo-backed-by-private-equity-1460324999
>The U.K.’s Daily Mail has emerged as a suitor for Yahoo Inc. ’s assets, joining a wide group of interested companies that includes telecom giant Verizon Communications Inc. as an April 18 deadline for preliminary offers nears, according to people familiar with the matter.
>The parent company of the Daily Mail, the British newspaper and global tabloid website, is in talks with several private-equity firms to launch a bid for Yahoo, the people said. Daily Mail & General Trust PLC, whose main interest is Yahoo’s news and media properties, is just one of some 40 players that have expressed interest in the Web portal.
>Yahoo has held meetings with Verizon, InterActiveCorp and CBS Corp. , one of the people said. The Mail hasn’t yet met with Yahoo executives. Verizon, which owns AOL and is looking to beef up its digital media and advertising businesses further, is considered a front-runner for Yahoo, according to many executives and analysts following the sale process.
>A possible bid by Daily Mail could take one of two forms, the people familiar with the matter said. In one scenario, a private-equity partner would aim to acquire the entirety of Yahoo’s U.S. operation, with the Mail taking over the news and media properties.
>Those assets include verticals such as Yahoo Finance and Yahoo Sports plus Yahoo News and a video operation whose big star is Katie Couric. Yahoo has been retrenching in those businesses. In February the company closed seven digital magazines including sites dedicated to food, parenting and health.
>In the other scenario, the private-equity firm would acquire Yahoo and merge its media and news properties into a new company that would include the Mail’s Web properties, DailyMail.com and Elite Daily, the people said. The Mail would run that business and would get a larger equity stake than under the first scenario.
...
>>38083
>you live to see Yahoo! get sold for peanuts to a fucking gossip mag
Did Yahoo get here because of its feminist workforce?
>>38110
probably
now that Yahoo owns tumblr i wonder what would happen if the dailymail purchased them
>>38131
whining
>waaah, only we're allowed to control the narrative, stop dissenting to what Soros wants!
First Gawker, now this. It's beautiful.
so they can read peoples emails for stories?
>>38187
>so they can read peoples emails for stories a lot easier than they can now*
*fixed for you anon
>>38083
>Implying the Internet isn't already the worst kind of tabloid
>Implying you aren't posting in /tabloid/ right now
>>38187
BREAKING NEWS:Jeff from next cubicle over borrows a stapler from Tina in accounting
Journalism as it was is all ready dead though.
>>38083
>yahoo
literally hoo?
>>38083
The irony of a massively biased article calling out massive article bias.
Does anybody still use yahoo except the senile idiots who were still using AOL 5-10 years ago?
>>38306
Sure. I gotta register my spam address with SOMEONE.
>>38306
I still have a couple of active email addresses with them, some of which are getting close to 20 years old
>>38083
worse than buzzfeed?
>>38342
worse than buzzfeed, huffpo, and breitbart combined
>>38344
>Breitbart
>Bad
Hi tumblr.
>>38396
First time on /news/, junior?
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2015/11/22/why-breitbart-website-is-fundraising-for-ted-cruz/#more-108891
>>38400
I couldn't give any less of a fuck about American politics.
Now instead of posting ad hominems try and support your side like an adult.
>>38407
Learn what an adhom is junior. The story is about the hedge fund manager who funds breitbart and his mandate to make sure he controls the so called "journalism" there. Of course you would know that already if you were smart enough to have things like reading comprehension and an attention span.
>DailyMail buying Yahoo
>Tumblr is owned by Yahoo
This is gonna be fucking hilarious.
>>38458
Fucking awesome.
>>38083
Soros must be trembling with rage.
>>40299
Why would he be?
