That’s what writer Michael Browning, now with The Palm Beach Post, told Tony Ridder the Miami Herald would become after Ridder ordered a $35 million budget cut 10 years ago.
Here is what he thinks of the Tallahassee Democrat trade.
I feel particularly sorry for the Tallahassee Democrat, one of the oldest papers in Florida, which recently celebrated its 100th anniversary. Now it has been sold down the river to Gannett which, I am reliably informed, is the Simon Legree of newspaper chains.
Read his post to Romenesko, and his letter to Ridder, here.