Submitted by Anonymous Source (not verified) on Sun, 06/29/2008 - 1:53am.
It's worth noting that the letter wasn't an O. thing, it was a Newhouse thing -- versions of it went out to every paper in the chain. I wouldn't start writing the O.'s obit just yet. If the Newhouses start taking an axe to papers, they won't start there -- they'd start at the Star-Ledger, which has been operating in the red for several years, at the Times-Pic, which is still dealing with Katrina fallout, or the Trenton Times, which has been an economic disaster for decades.
It's worth noting that the letter wasn't an O. thing, it was a Newhouse thing -- versions of it went out to every paper in the chain. I wouldn't start writing the O.'s obit just yet. If the Newhouses start taking an axe to papers, they won't start there -- they'd start at the Star-Ledger, which has been operating in the red for several years, at the Times-Pic, which is still dealing with Katrina fallout, or the Trenton Times, which has been an economic disaster for decades.