Duluth News Tribune is gonna live forever (gonna learn how to fly … high)

The editor of the Duluth News-Tribune reassures readers in the prominent Sunday edition that the paper’s owners are “planning to stick around a long, long time.” That’s good news for the DNT, its workers and readers. But, to be fair, that’s exactly what I would tell a newspaper if I planned to sell it off and/or shut it down in a brutal media consolidation deal. The tipoff is the second, unnecessary “long.” And then when I left the building I’d light a cigar with that paper’s most recent edition and purchase a vast amount of Costa Rica before the storm comes. But that’s just me. I’m sure real life media oligarchs are much more benevolent.