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Oberjuerge.com
Former Gannett employee Paul Oberjuerge writes about the chain's huge profit margins (42.5% at the Green Bay Press-Gazette, for example): "At some point, Gannett should have remembered it was a media company, a newspaper company, with all the First Amendment privileges and responsibilities that brings. It could have and should have spent more on its newspaper products and tried to scrape by on, oh, 20-25 percent profit."
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