Curious news from The Daily Caller:
Employees: Obama donor in process of buying up and "destroying" America's top pro-gun media outlets
Employees of Obama donor Leo Hindery Jr.'s media conglomerate Intermedia Partners, which now owns most of the top gun-culture media outlets in the country, believe that Hindery plans to gut and destroy all of them as part of a business plan that has already led to numerous layoffs and the virtual shuttering of prominent television production facilities in Minnesota and Montana.
Hindery, who was in consideration to be President Barack Obama's secretary of commerce, is managing partner of Intermedia Partners. The New York-based media private equity fund owns Intermedia Outdoor Holdings, which publishes 17 hunting, fishing, and shooting magazines, including Guns & Ammo, Handguns, Gun Dog, Rifle Shooter and Shooting Times.
InterMedia Outdoor Holdings purchased the pro-gun hunting and fishing network the Sportsman Channel in 2007, and is now in the process of acquiring the Outdoor Channel, pending the federal government's approval of last month's merger between InterMedia Outdoors and Outdoor Channel Holdings.
InterMedia employees believe that Hindery, a Huffington Post blogger who has contributed to numerous Democratic politicians including Andrew Cuomo and Elizabeth Warren, is in the process of consolidating all of America's leading gun-culture media outlets and stripping them down to virtual destruction.
Prior to its acquisition by InterMedia, the media brand Petersen's Hunting, the television arm of which is broadcast by the Sportsman Channel, was housed in a "beautiful" facility in Baxter, Minnesota, overlooking the Mississippi River. The facility had approximately 60 employees, a massive studio, at least nine editing bays and fully-wired machine rooms and was conducting about four studio shoots per year with a full production crew.
That facility now mostly consists of about 12 employees - basic administrative types, - who think every day they go into work is going to be their layoff day, according to an InterMedia employee who spoke on condition of anonymity.
I am not a big magazine person -- 99% of the stuff is on the web already and a new 'zine will last me 20 minutes at most. Still, these are some very familiar titles with a long legacy -- it would be a shame to lose them. #A bit more:
"Now that Hindery has the Outdoor Channel, he's in a position to consolidate all of the major pro-Second Amendment media titles in this country, strip them down, and destroy them, like venture capitalists do sometimes," the employee said.
Many Outdoor Channel producers are "scared shitless," realizing that the careers they built are now in the hands of an Obama donor who is in the process of breaking apart pro-gun media companies.
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