In an interesting twist of fate, a financially failing Philadelphia church made a "$100,000 loan to fund the resuscitation of newspapers". The loan went to a Germantown businessman to publish two new weeklies.
For sure, I think it was smart of the businessman to get financing from a church. Certainly says something about the market though. And, I sure hope that the church knew what business plan questions to ask and did it's due dilligence to ensure that its money will eventually be returned. Perhaps equally interesting was the belief by the church's parishoners that financing local newspapers was a fit with mission. I'm not saying it's not, but......