Examining Anschutz's Plans

Slate’s Jack Shafer has a very intriguing piece today examining the possibly long-term newspaper/media/world domination strategy of billionaire Examiner backer Philip Anschutz. He proffers a few ideas as to how the Examiner family of papers might make a run against established papers. The article’s sort of complicated to summarize, so just read the whole thing.

The Examiner has a tough road to climb. As Shafer notes, the Post isn’t exactly falling down on the job just yet, and the Examiner (beyond its excellent city columns led by Harry Jaffe) isn’t exactly demonstrating a bastion of news reporting.

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