Will the P-I stop rotating on the Post-Intelligencer sign in Seattle? Maybe.Ever wanted to know what a death sentence feels like? You can get a pretty good idea over at the Seattle Post Intelligencer.
On Jan. 9, Steve Swartz, an executive from Hearst, announced in the newsroom that the company was putting the money-losing newspaper, known locally as the P-I, up for sale for 60 days.
Everyone knows that the chance of a sale is ‘slim to none.’
Given that such metropolitan papers as the Rocky Mountain News, the San Diego Union Tribune and the Austin American Statesman have not exactly been fending off eager buyers since being put up for sale last year, and given that the P-I lost $14 million last year, it looks unlikely it will last past March, at least as a fully-fledged newspaper.
The lower photo shows two workmen performing maintenance on the P-I globe atop the P-I building in Seattle.
After 60 days, the Post-Intelligencer may write its own obituary.
Even if P-I remains as a web paper appearing on the Internet only, the staff will cut drastically.
Comedians will be telling us to subscribe to out-of-town papers to make sure we have material to line bird cages and wrap fish.
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