[pepsi_junkie]

Surely there's some enterprising investment person or team out there that could make that happen.

In Philadelphia there are two newspapers and both are owned by something called (I think) Newscorp. Anyway they are both uber liberal rags, the Daily News and the Inquirer. A few years ago they were both about to go broke and an investment group pooled their money and bought them, saving them from certain collapse. However, the head of the group was a republican and the reporters revolted. They insisted he sign a pledge not to try to influence them or the editorial page or they would go on strike. He signed it, ensuring that the hard core lefties would remain and the paper would continue the downward spiral. Proves that just because someone who isn't a liberal democrat gets control of a newspaper you can't assume it will stop being a liberal rag.

About a year ago, the group sold the papers to another consortium, this time formed from a bunch of prominent rich democrats. Not a peep from the reporters about that.

[nascarnation]

News Corp is Rupert Murdoch.
The Philly Inquirer is (at least according to Wiki) owned by a group of local investors.

[wku man]

That's too bad...maybe he should've pulled a Ronald Reagan, fired them all, and replaced them with writers from the conservative blogosphere. After all, if the staff reporters were such hot shots, why did circulation suck so badly? No one says it's going to be easy, and some hard decisions would have to be made. But there's enough conservative talent out here -- reporters, anchors, writers, musicians, actors, even professional athletes -- it could be done if someone, or a group of people with guts, were willing to do what needs to be done.

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