{"id":12262,"date":"2014-06-01T09:02:32","date_gmt":"2014-06-01T14:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=12262"},"modified":"2014-06-01T09:02:32","modified_gmt":"2014-06-01T14:02:32","slug":"if-it-werent-for-bad-luck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=12262","title":{"rendered":"If it weren&#8217;t for bad luck&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=12118\">briefly touched on<\/a>, but never discussed in detail, Philadelphia&#8217;s two troubled daily newspapers (the <strong>Daily News<\/strong> and the <strong>Inquirer<\/strong>). In brief, they&#8217;ve gone through bankruptcy, ownership changes, ownership conflicts, and more ownership changes.<\/p>\n<p>Early last week, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phillymag.com\/news\/2014\/05\/30\/lewis-katz-i-thought-norcross-wanted-to-own-it\/\">the papers were bought by a group of investors led by Lewis Katz<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Last night, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/philly\/news\/20140602_Lewis_Katz__co-owner_of_The_Inquirer__dies_in_plane_crash.html\">Lewis Katz and six other people were killed in a private jet crash<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is sad and awful and I don&#8217;t intend to mock anyone&#8217;s death. I note it here because it seems like the Philly papers are just one hard luck story after another. Mr. Katz&#8217;s son is apparently going to take his place on the board that manages the papers; if you read the linked article about the purchase, though, it doesn&#8217;t seem clear that the late Mr. Katz or his partners had a turn-around plan for the papers, or that they even expected to win the bidding war for them. With Mr. Katz gone, I suspect that&#8217;s going to complicate things even more.<\/p>\n<p>(Hattip: <a href=\"http:\/\/jimromenesko.com\/2014\/06\/01\/lewis-katz-dies-in-a-plane-crash-just-days-after-winning-control-of-philadelphias-newspapers\/\">Jimbo<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve briefly touched on, but never discussed in detail, Philadelphia&#8217;s two troubled daily newspapers (the Daily News and the Inquirer). In brief, they&#8217;ve gone through bankruptcy, ownership changes, ownership conflicts, and more ownership changes. Early last week, the papers were bought by a group of investors led by Lewis Katz. Last night, Lewis Katz and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,22,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clippings","category-media","category-obits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12263,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12262\/revisions\/12263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}