Hear, Hear
Nov 3rd, 2005 at 4:41 pm by Susie
I can’t really argue with the man:
The pressure on Knight Ridder to be sold to the highest bidder was a disappointment but no surprise to Davis “Buzz” Merritt, who worked for the newspaper company for more than 40 years. His book, Knightfall: Knight Ridder and How the Erosion of Newspaper Journalism Is Putting Democracy at Risk, was published in March.
“If this had happened 15 years ago, I would really have been concerned that some communities would lose some truly excellent papers,” said Merritt, former editor of the Wichita Eagle. “But in the company’s efforts to avoid this sort of thing, Knight Ridder has so degraded the quality of their papers that I’m frankly not sure it matters who owns them anymore.”
