Reply #3: Seems to be a bad rumor? [View All]

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The P-I's managing editor said he knows of no plans to sell the paper. At about 5:15 p.m., soon after the report was aired, managing editor David McCumber told the newsroom's staffers, "If this is going on -- and I don't know that it is -- it's going on at a level that's far above me, and nobody has seen fit to clue me in. I think it's a bunch of rumor. You look at the state of this business -- it wouldn't surprise me if something was going on, but I have no knowledge of what that something is."

McCumber said that he had spoken to P-I editor and publisher Roger Oglesby by phone a few minutes before and that Oglesby "said almost exactly what I'm telling you."

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/395362_newspaper09.html