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Does it make sense for Time Warner to keep AOL as a business in its family?

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Does it make sense for Time Warner to keep AOL as a business in its family?

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It makes sense if AOL can develop a sustainable business model that allows it to grow comparable to our other businesses, or greater, over a long period of time. I say that because if you asked me if we should stay in the publishing business, I’d give you the same answer. I think the publishing business is wonderful, and I think it has many opportunities ahead. I think it’s important to continue to look at our mix of assets as a company. We sold music this year because of that reason. We sold music because, if you looked out in the future, it was hard to see how we were going to sustain the growth rate that we needed for the growth of our company overall. Personally, I believe that AOL is going to continue to grow over the next several years. And that’s the question that everyone’s been asking, because we’ve been dropping subscribers until this year. We said we bottomed out last year. You have to remember that a significant amount of the advertising that was driven by the Internet bubb

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