Comments on: Co-operative-etition, Chicago style http://owenyoungman.com/2009/11/24/co-operative-etition-chicago-style/ Knight Professor of Digital Media Strategy, Medill / Northwestern Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:32:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Tony Majeri http://owenyoungman.com/2009/11/24/co-operative-etition-chicago-style/comment-page-1/#comment-54 Tony Majeri Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:36:08 +0000 http://owenyoungman.com/?p=1534#comment-54 As always Owen you bring a thorough and thoughtful perspective. As always Owen you bring a thorough and thoughtful perspective.

]]> By: Tom Stites http://owenyoungman.com/2009/11/24/co-operative-etition-chicago-style/comment-page-1/#comment-53 Tom Stites Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:23:42 +0000 http://owenyoungman.com/?p=1534#comment-53 How, exactly, is this a cooperative? Will it be a consumer co-op owned by its customers on a one owner-one vote basis, on the same legal model as a food co-op or a credit union? Will it be a producer co-op, owned by its writers and editors in the way Land o' Lakes is owned by the dairy farmers and dairy owners who produce its butter and cheese? Or will it be a co-op in name only, owned by a 501(c)3 that signs up subscribers and calls them members the way public broadcasting calls its contributors "members"? Or what? What it comes down to is, who owns this? At this point, might it be that WTTW owns it? Will that change? How, exactly, is this a cooperative? Will it be a consumer co-op owned by its customers on a one owner-one vote basis, on the same legal model as a food co-op or a credit union? Will it be a producer co-op, owned by its writers and editors in the way Land o’ Lakes is owned by the dairy farmers and dairy owners who produce its butter and cheese? Or will it be a co-op in name only, owned by a 501(c)3 that signs up subscribers and calls them members the way public broadcasting calls its contributors “members”? Or what?

What it comes down to is, who owns this? At this point, might it be that WTTW owns it? Will that change?

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