Comedy
Website Possible Takeover Target
With
growing consolidation among the media in the last
decade, it’s no surprise that another online
enterprise may be a merge or takeover target by some
of the major media conglomerates.
WackyTimes.com, with its highly devoted and unusually
gullible readership, has long been considered by pundits
as one of the more attractive takeover targets.
“They’ve
got the lock on undiscriminating readers,” explains
economics and ergonomics professor, Stanford Harvard
Loop. “Nowhere on the web can you find so many
people who understand so little.”
Founder of the site and majority stockholder, Mickey
Loop, is expected to become a billionaire if the stock
value skyrockets as some speculate it will, assuming
serious interest becomes evident from major players
like Time-Warner, Fox Media, Yahoo, Google or Microsoft.
“That’s
a doubtful scenario,” says one skeptical stock
analyst. “The company has no stock at all right
now, and no one in their right mind would want to
own it.”
The source of the takeover rumors, it has been surmised,
may be the Wacky Times website itself, which first
broke the story.
Other
stories on the site include an investigative report
on cosmetic surgery for pets, three-bedroom SUVs,
and a rehab facility for kids who grow up hooked on
phonics.
