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June 19, 2006


Seattle’s 2-Newspaper Group Plods On

In a story we've been tracking here for quite some time, a community group fighting for Seattle to remain a two newspaper town will continue its advocacy despite recent setbacks. The Seattle Times has sought to end a Joint Operating Agreement with the Seattle Post-Intelligencer widely believed necessary for the P-I to continue publishing. If the P-I closes, it's like dozens of newspaper strips will lose the Seattle market, and syndicates will also lose clients because the remaining paper will no longer fell it's necessary to buy a promising feature and hold it without publication so that their competitor doesn't get it.
 
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