Timothy Pilgrim

Lefty Journo Prof Decries Profit Motive In 'Killing' of Seattle P-I

By Mark Finkelstein | January 10, 2009 - 16:25

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer could be going out of business.  And the culprit is . . . capitalism.  That's Pilgrim's Complaint. Tim Pilgrim, that is.  The professor of journalism at Western Washington University was quoted today in the P-I's article about its own pending demise. The P-I's parent company, the Hearst Corp., has put the paper up for sale, and prospects aren't good for finding a buyer.

But not to fear.  Prof. Pilgrim has a solution: 

[Pilgrim] suggested that the P-I staff buy the paper and run it at a lesser profit than Hearst requires -- perhaps assisted by a wealthy patron such as Bill Gates or Paul Allen.