Saturday, January 07, 2012

How Sad: Marv's lament on sale of hometown newspaper

The Times-News of Hendersonville, North Carolina, is among 16 newspapers sold by the New York Times Co. and Halifax Media Holdings LLC.  It’s the hometown newspaper of former Beacon Journal staffer Marv Katz.

Katz, in an email with the subject line How Sad, had this to say:

Our local paper, now operating out of offices in a strip shopping center across the street from its old building (which has been torn down to make way for a brand-new Goodwill facility), with production performed down the mountain at a sister paper in Spartanburg, S.C., welcomes a new owner, known primarily for sucking up to the moneyed interests in town and ignoring the public interest.  How comforting...
Read about it on the newspaper’s website.

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