Seattle Times
Eric Pryne notes the Times is paying Post-Intelligencer owner Hearst $24 million and is getting no relief from a contract with Hearst that Times publisher
Frank Blethen has repeatedly said threatens his paper's profitability. "It seems kind of like The Times blinked," says union leader
Liz Brown. J-prof
Doug Underwood believes the Times may have decided to "limp along" for several years with the hope that the P-I will shut down. ||
Blethen says: "We're faced with what every newspaper in the country is faced with, and that's a broken economic model."
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Neither newspaper will reveal details of the JOA settlement (P-I)
