Granted 24 yrs. is not a long life for a newspaper. Scaife took it city-wide to fill the void as the Pittsburgh Press ceased publication. It was the more conservative of the two dailies here.
Scaife died two years ago. He had set up a trust to finance the paper in perpetuity. But his children apparently did not wish to flush the estate down a rathole. They went to court, and a judge froze the assets of the trust while the case moved forward.
The Trib became a dead man walking at that point.
(H/T Doctor Raoul)
Our only other daily paper is the Post-Gazette, a typical liberal rag.
Even though it was a relatively conservative paper, maybe this is for the best.
Trusts and foundations are notorious for being taken over by Leftists, even when the founder was conservative.
There was one wealthy conservative who recognized this - I believe it was John M. Olin. He set up his foundation to expire a few years after his death. He figured that a lot of good could be accomplished by his foundation in those few years; but that if it stayed in existence, it would trend Leftward and start to do abominable things.
I am curious....
every big city newspaper market I can think of that has an effective one-paper monopoly....the rags are all super-leftwing, commie type propaganda sheets
BUT I do NOt know most of the big city newspapers in USA...
are there any big city monopoly newspapers with visibly conservative (or balanced pretty moderate) political slants?
just curious if the evil of monopoly newspaper markets is ALSO a monopoly leftwing propaganda machine, too>
and if so, why? if there are 100 monopoly news markets and 80 or 90 of them are dominated by leftwing socialist commie rags.............................why is this? maybe more moderate or convervative people should try to launch a few more news outlets?????? papers, tv networks, or?
if there’s a rough spectrum of polics in big city news markets, then I am happier of course...
Whoever is running the Greensburg Tribune-Review (the progenitor of the now-defunct Pittsburgh edition), is hellbent on killing it, too.
On December 1, not only did the Pittsburgh Trib cease production, but the Greensburg Trib got pared down significantly... it’s barely worth reading. Of course, some of its more rural subscribers wouldn’t know that, since delivery to their homes (and in some cases, even to stores in town) ceased earlier in the year.
If it sees two more years, I’ll be shocked.