Philadelphia Will Do, Even More Watered Down

As you may have read elsewhere, it appears Philadelphia Weekly is for sale. In case you can’t tell by the PW logo at left, the countless links to Philadelphia Weekly and the domain “philadelphiaweekly” in the URL, this blog is a part of Philadelphia Weekly.

We — and by “we” I mean “I” — don’t know much about any potential sale, as the guys on the other side of the office have apparently kept everyone hush-hush about the whole situation. I pretty much know as much about the potential buyers as you do. Maybe Ron Burkle will buy the paper! (Remember him?) Maybe the Inquirer and Daily News unions will chip in to buy ol’ P-Dub? How about you? Do you have money? Do you want to own a newspaper?

The first thought that popped into my head was, of course: New Times. (The chain renamed itself after buying the Village Voice; it’s now called Village Voice Media.) This is a newspaper chain whose executive editor told The Phoenix: “I expect original reporting[,] not merely some lazy form of print blogging.” This gives me some hope; if he doesn’t want lazy blogging in print, maybe he wants lazy online blogging. And it takes hard work to get this lazy. You can’t just plug in anybody for laziness like this.

Then, this morning, there was this bombshell from Dan Gross (after the jump):

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