Newspapers & The Philadelphia Experiment

Can a slick public relations man with a controversial past, no publishing experience and a pocketful of big ideas rescue Philadelphia’s two foundering daily newspapers?

My answer is “Who the hell knows?�

But nearly a year after a group of investors led by Brian Tierney purchased the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News after raising $150 million in equity, I am looking at that question in a new light and willing – in fact, desperate – to give him a chance of succeeding.

This is because the city’s two fine daily newspapers are dying slow deaths. They may not expire next month or next year, and the News is the far more vulnerable to extinction of the two, but both are toast without an enormous shot of adrenalin.

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