Blogger Buys Newspaper(?!)

You know what they say in journalism: when a dog bites a man, that’s not news. But when a blog buys a newspaper….Tom Knighton, owner of Albany, Ga.-based political blog Laws N’ Sausages, has formed a company to purchase community weekly The Albany Journal.

Local TV station WALB reports:

“Since Knighton was young, he has wanted to be a newspaper man.

“‘Being a journalist is just something I have always wanted to do, and when an opportunity like that drops in your lap, you do not turn it down,’ says Knighton.

“‘This

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