I tell you what...you make this deal, and I'll gladly sign on as a writer with one of the papers in question. As a freelance writer I'd never be interested in waging the daily uphill battle of working for a lefty fishwrap, but helping to establish the new editorial party line...that I could handle.
I am calling my guy at Merrill Lynch Capital tomorrow
and try to get a target price on this chain. If it was converted to conservative it could survive, minus some trimming.