SUNDAY, AUGUST 27, 2006
New York Times
"[Knight Ridder] was one of the strongest newspaper companies in America," says former San Jose Mercury News publisher
Jay Harris. "How could you have a hand like that and play it in such a way that you would end up losing everything?"
James Naughton, a former Philly Inquirer editor and retired Poynter president, tells
Katharine Q. Seelye the real story of KR's decline and fall is "the notion that you can continue whittling and paring and reducing and degrading the quality of your product and not pay any price."
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