>>> Just after it came out their circulation numbers mighta been a little cooked (or undercooked, as the case may be) and 68 felt the axe last week, the news keeps getting weirder for our friends at Philadelphia Newspapers. To wit: They’ll be printing up the New York Times as part of some kind of harebrained marketing and distro deal that presumes people will read the flaccid Sunday Inky when they can be rolling deep with a Sunday NYT that’s that much easier to access. [DMNews]
>>> But the news isn’t all bad, we suppose: Today, the Inky is the featured article on Wikipedia. There’s some kind of intense irony in there, but it’s a little too early in the morning to tease it out. We’ll think on it a bit. In the meantime, we’ll read the entry and long for the days when the paper was actually something to be proud of. Just like Inky employees do. [Wikipedia]
>>> And if you think Brian Tierney isn’t sweating all this, consider for a moment: His house in Avalon is up for sale. You can buy a lot of office supplies with $3.9 million, yo, but where will you crash after cosmotinis at The Princeton? More importantly, where will we crash? [Daily Examiner]

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