Também a Media Capital fica ligada à pornografia?...
Metro owner hawks porn: Times partner cashes in on European TV skin flicks
The Times Co. and Boston Globe, under a deal to buy 49 percent of Metro Boston, would instantly become corporate cousins with Modern Times Group - a Swedish company that has aggressively asserted its right to telecast pornography throughout Scandinavia and the Baltics.
Metro International, the freebie Boston daily's parent, is 28-percent owned by Stockholm-based Modern Times, according to its latest corporate filings.
Modern Times is a large media outfit that includes TV1000, a controversial network that telecasts pornography as well as a broad range of entertainment and other programming. It formerly was majority owner of Metro International before the newspaper chain's operations were spun off to shareholders in 2000.
[A Metro lançou recentemente uma edição em Portugal, em parceria com a Media Capital]
[act.: What, Metro worry? Times shrugs off porno partner: The New York Times Co. is shrugging off the link between a freebie newspaper it's buying into and a Swedish porn purveyor that telecasts skin flicks across northern Europe.
Times Co. spokeswoman Catherine Mathis denied the company's plan to buy a 49 percent stake in Metro International's Boston daily would put the Gray Lady in bed with Modern Times Group - the porno-pushing parent of Metro's empire.
Modern Times controls 28 percent of Metro International, which is the parent company of Metro Boston. The Swedish Modern Times also controls TV1000 - a controversial network that telecasts sex films and a wide range of other programming.
``The Times Co. owns neither Metro International nor Modern Times Group, and does not propose to own either,'' Mathis said in a statement, also adding that the Times Co. does not ``have responsibility for the other business activities of Metro International, its investors or other business partners.''
But one Wall Street analyst said the scandal-weary Times Co.'s clumsy play for the freebie Metro Boston has turned into ``another embarrassment'' for the media giant.
Moreover, respected Times watchers say the sordid details lurking behind the giveaway Metro chain are exactly what the Times' family-controlled board tries to avoid.]
