While those at the Hearst Corporation’s Seattle Post-Intelligencer anxiously count down to the likely closure of their paper’s print edition next month, employees at Hearst’s San Francisco Chronicle are being warned they may be next:

SAN FRANCISCO (AP)—The owner of the San Francisco Chronicle will sell or close the daily newspaper if it can’t dramatically lower expenses within the next few months.

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8 replies on “Another Hearst Property in Peril”

  4. When I was a kid, the only kids who read newspapers were the speech team people. These kids would read newspapers and U.S. News and World Report. They didn’t want to be informed, they just wanted to get jobs in Government or go to good colleges and law schools. They would be on the Speech Team and do ex-tempore speeches. 80 percent of them did “I Have A Dream”. 15% did Gettysburg. The other 5 percent did stuff no one remembers.

    That’s why newspapers are dead.

  8. Newspapers cannot die.

    Without them, what will we use to line our birdcages and litter boxes and use to pack our belongings when we move?

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