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Journalists often stand accused of neglecting good news in favor of bad. And on Monday evening, some of the most eminent names in British journalism seemed frankly perplexed at how to handle a piece of good news: namely, that their employer, the Observer, had been saved from the chop. They...
The Observer had already been in business for almost two years when it reported the execution of French Queen Marie Antoinette in 1793. Observer journalists have filed dispatches from two world wars and multiple other conflicts. For more than two centuries, the paper has not only described and analyzed profound...
"The trust insists on keeping numerical control, which is unheard of today when you have to get bigger and you have to grow," says an observer. "It's a 1930s mentality."
If Hershey doesn't step up, "its growth ability will be dramatically impaired," says an observer, adding that it has "an ability now to put gum and chocolate together in the U.S. and be a real competitior to Mars-Wrigley."
Some locals are seeing the loss as an opportunity. The folks behind the Ann Arbor Observer, a 33-year-old free monthly, hope to pick up some of the News's journalists and advertisers. Then there's the Ann Arbor Journal, a free weekly paper/website that started circulating to 20...