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GOP investers try to break up K-R

Submitted by Rick on Sat, 12/10/2005 - 7:37am.

The Knight-Ridder Company

Check out this story (via a DKos diary):

A group of investors from Florida, who are regular contributors to Bush and GOP National Committee, are trying to break up the Knight-Ridder newspaper chain. Knight-Ridder is one of the few truly independent mainstream news sources that provides truly independent coverage and investigative journalism. Knight Ridder includes the Philadelphia Inquirer, as well as major papers in Northern California, Miami and many other cities.
Their reporters had the rare distinction of being able to see through the Bush Administration's smokescreen before the Iraq invasion. Their stories in 2002 and 2003 predicted everything that has subsequently happened in Iraq - based upon leaks provided to them by career State Department and Defense Department staff.

K-R owns the Olympian newspaper.

This is very bad for a lot of

Submitted by Rob Richards on Sun, 12/11/2005 - 10:56pm.

This is very bad for a lot of reasons. At the same time, I can't help but think that the newspaper is on it's way out. It's very wasteful, and it's slow news. The internet, especially blogs, are challenging print media as people's news source. I personally, only skim through the zero for local news that I'm interested in. They don't usually do a very good job with local news, so I go to the city's website or talk to friends in the know for my City news. For news from outside of the area, why get it from the Olympian? They use wire stories, and usually you can find much better writing from other sources. Plus, I don't trust one source. With the corporatization of the media I like to read a few different versions of an event. I subscribe to about 30 news podcasts, which iTunes organizes and updates for me automatically, and that allows me to listen to great news shows like This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Face The Nation, Meet The Press; all without having to turn on the evil TV and seeing commercials.

The thing that upsets me the most about this is that nobody is going to report on this hijacking of KR, except for KR reporters.

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