Breaking: The Philadelphia Bulletin, Dead Already?
Say, a five-month run ain’t bad for a paper that had a hijacked name, circulation that only reached the small-yet-powerful I-own-a-vanity-newspaper demographic, and a business plan that was, in its proprietor’s own words, nonexistent. So, you know, Bulletin employees weren’t shocked when they found out that last Friday’s paper was, uh, “cancelled.” Oh, and that they weren’t going to get paid. And then, it was, and they didn’t. So there’s that. More as this develops.
UPDATED: Kevin Williamson, ed-in-chief of The Evening Bulletin, just wrote in to straighten us out some. He says the paper is in production (Friday’s no-show was due to some Michael Jackson-esque Mediterranean guy getting nailed to a cross) and that everything is cool, everyone got paid, and we’re all going to heaven in a little rowboat. Developing?
