Gazette Publisher is no Dreamboat (Pun Intended)

WaPo‘s suburban newspapers, The Gazette, recently laid off employees.

So what does Chuck Lyons, CEO of Post-Newsweek Media, the parent company to the Gazette, do? He writes about buying his dream boat. A first-person account of the publisher’s dream boat appeared in Wednesday’s paper. Strangely, no byline. But at the bottom of the piece, a final line reads: “The writer is CEO of Post-Newsweek Media, the parent company of The Gazette.”

An excerpt:

“A few days ago, my wife and I launched our new boat, and that night nature reminded me who rules the waters and the difficulty in plying those waters with uneventful experiences.

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