Happy Talk

Paul Schutt sells the state good news

by Michael Betzold

posted 9/29/2011

If the economy is bad, publish only positive business news, and funders will line up to bask in the glow. That's the profitable formula of Ann Arbor's Paul Schutt, who has built a small empire, including the local website Concentrate, by giving his backers nothing but pleasing news.

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