SFist: What Does the Sale of the Hearst-Owned Seattle P-I Mean for SF Chronicle?

joshb

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:07:46 -0800

This sounds like what happened when the Ex was Hearst and the Chron was the Fangs'. Look to SF for a flash-forward of Seattle will look like soon enough(a one-paper town)

plumpy

Sat, 10 Jan 2009 02:27:54 -0800

I'm not trying to deny that the newspaper industry is fucked (and, as a subscriber to both the Chronicle and the NY Times, I'm more upset about it than most), but... Seattle had two daily papers trying to compete. The P-I was far and away the shittier of the two. They had some crazy agreement whereby the Seattle Times and the P-I even put out a joint paper on Sunday. The P-I is a better paper than the Examiner, but this is a relatively similar situation. Seattle is way too small to support two daily papers. This was a long time coming.

antfaber

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:06:25 -0800

Could they find a buyer? Would the Fangs take it off their hands if they paid her enough?

Xenu

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:20:57 -0800

The Chronicle is a terrible paper, and the sooner they go out of business the better. They we can turn that building into condos for rich people who just moved here from the suburbs.

RobInSF

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:54:53 -0800

that's it - - - I'm heading up to Russian Hill to burn down a porta-potty in protest! Oh wait, new episode of House is coming on. Never mind...

Greg

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:52:53 -0800

the seattle times is one of the worst papers now...at least with a viable PI they had to at least try to do some reporting....if the PI becomes another Media News shell, it'll die off soon anyway since all medianews papers just have stuff you can find on yahoo news wire feeds anyway...