So someone like Zell might come over and buy their assets in a fire sale? At some point the whole heap has to come crashing down, though.
I know about the schaudenfreude etc., but deep down this whole process and series of failures is really painful. I used to love to read the newspapers. It’s horrible what the liberals have done to them. I even have letters written by my ggg-grandmother, asking my gg-grandfather what newspaper he read. It’s a terrible shame what they have allowed themselves to become.
I understand your sadness. I too grew up reading newspapers. The once conservative Shreveport (LA) Journal, The Monroe (LA) Morning World - before it was infected with Gannett Syndrome, and others. All gone now.
But then look at this way. Think of all the scribblers put out of work when movable type was invented. When they went away I’m sure they were missed for a while, but knowledge became more widespread. The same will be said of newspapers in the future. They will be remembered as a quaint anachronism like the coal oil lamp, the horse-drawn wagon and suchlike.