Byrd fingers TNInvestco

Given that Solidus-owned Southcomm's PostPolitics blog via NashvillePost.com is one of the most frequent re-posters of Mike Byrd's Enclave blogposts, we might as well save A.C. Kleinheider the trouble: Byrd's opinion on how TNInvestco supposedly inappropriately pleasures VC Solidus, which owns Southcomm, et al, is linked here. Apart from Byrd's avowed concern about the media consolidation represented in holding-company Southcomm, the burr here seems to be as much about the evergreen topic of economic-development incentives for current and future Tennessee businesses, as it is the issue of media ownership and-or ethical conflicts Byrd imagines flowing from Southcomm media coverage of TNInvestco. Related: NashvilleScene columnist Bruce Barry offers two pieces relevant here: pieces 1 and 2.