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The Phoenix Principle on the cluelessness of newspapers Just as I predicted in this blog months ago, when Sam Zell leveraged up Tribune in his buyout, the odds of any particular newspaper surviving is not very good. It was 3…

The San Francisco Chronicle plans to fire half its employees, then raise the price of the paper and charge for online access. Such a breathtakingly stupid plan seems typical of the newspaper business. Why, would readers want to pay more…