The Citizen debacle just got loonier, with the news that state Attorney General Terry Goddard is seeking a court order to keep the paper publishing. A jilted prospective buyer thinks Gannett is acting inappropriately by turning down his offer and choosing to (mostly) shutter the paper instead. So he asked Goddard to intervene … and by God, he did.
What happens next is up to a judge.
So … go to the Citizen’s Web site where you can read a surreal mixture of their fine farewell content and ongoing coverage of their will-we-close-or-won’t-we saga.
And to those of you who work for the Citizen: God bless you, you poor souls!
This article appears in May 14-20, 2009.
Any Tucson Citizen employees want to share their inside stories? I would like to know what it’s like behind the scenes there.
Debacle is the right word. The rest of the media in Tucson has done a less than adequate job of explaining the
Gannett scheme, artifice, and device to sell the masthead without the JOA. The DOJ should have put an end to Gannett’s ploy early on. Goddard should have been in court six months ago. God help us, the Weekly is now the leading newspaper in Tucson.