Is there an echo in here?
I'm guessing that Kurt Kragthorpe of The Salt Lake Tribune and Mike Sorensen of the Deseret Morning News did not engage in collusion, but their columns today on BYU golfer Todd Miller's withdrawal from the Utah State Amateur because he didn't want to play on Sunday are remarkably similar. Kragthorpe's column is "Miller should have spoken up sooner" and Sorensen's is "Timing was bad on Miller's stand."
This is evidence of what I have suspected for some time: Despite their claims of editorial rivalry, the Trib and News are, in many ways, the same newspaper. If anyone is still under the delusion that the Newspaper Preservation Act, which sanctioned the joint operating agreement between the Trib and News, actually preserves rather than destroys editorial diversity, read the columns of Kragthorpe and Sorensen. Perhaps if the two newspapers weren't granted an exemption from federal antitrust laws, true competition and editorial diversity could thrive.
This is evidence of what I have suspected for some time: Despite their claims of editorial rivalry, the Trib and News are, in many ways, the same newspaper. If anyone is still under the delusion that the Newspaper Preservation Act, which sanctioned the joint operating agreement between the Trib and News, actually preserves rather than destroys editorial diversity, read the columns of Kragthorpe and Sorensen. Perhaps if the two newspapers weren't granted an exemption from federal antitrust laws, true competition and editorial diversity could thrive.
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