re: McClatchy papers bought by pro Trump Chatham Asset!!!

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Now someone needs to buy Gannett.

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Gannett has grown a lot in the past few years. Last year they merged with Gatehouse media and own several papers in Louisiana.

The philosophy at Gatehouse was slash and burn the papers to the ground. They laid off staff and made them into a shell of their former selves.

They sold off any property and assets that was tied to the paper and shrunk circulation until some papers folded.

Take for example the Houma Courier. The once proud newspaper for the Houma-Thibodaux area is a shell of its former self. Gatehouse/Gannett sold off its main headquarters, and now operate out of an office near a residential neighborhood. They don’t even print it in Houma. It is now printed in Lafayette where Gannett has the Daily Advertiser. Their paper is just a few pages thick and not as thick as it used to be.

Someone did a story about how Gatehouse has killed small town news.

Here is an AP story about it, ironically on a Gannett owned newspaper before the merger:

Tennessean Story on Gatehouse