I hope the Koch’s do buy these newspapers, but it will require something more from them.
To have those newspapers good enough to print and sell, the Kochs will have to build and staff a journalism school that actually teaches objective reporting, journalism, and editing. Not political correctness, prejudice, bias, slant and spin, and above all abject ignorance of what they are writing about. Which is what other journalism schools crank out.
This journalism school will hard to set up and staff, but will provide a quality stream of hires to the Koch papers, and with quality comes increased circulation. They should recruit college graduates with degrees in other subjects, former military personnel, and others with credibility, so that what they write about is backed by facts, not just AP press release news given local spin.
I would strongly recommend also that the newspapers adopt several sections that used to be prominent in newspapers, such as a crime section and local news, which big city newspapers stopped doing to their detriment.
Abolish many of the conventions liberal journalists have adopted, such as identifying race problems, rejecting false labels, such as “undocumented immigrants”, calling Israel “Palestine”, calling Muslim terrorists whatever euphemism they are called now, etc.
Since these are all liberal contrivances, and they will call anyone who doesn’t follow them “right wing”, so be it. Objectivity needs no defense from those who lie.
Fire most of the writers and editors. Hire graduates of Patrick Henry, Liberty and Heritage.