Metro Silicon Valley
From
Najeeb Hasan's interview with Bayosphere founder and former Mercury News tech journalist
Dan Gillmor:
You famously suggested that Yahoo buy the Mercury News. Why do you think no local bidders came to the table?
Famously? The L.A. Times said (paraphrasing) that the suggestion sank almost without a trace. I can't judge others' motives. But I'd guess that the valley powers-that-be (the real ones) consider the local newspaper business uninteresting if not ridiculous. I do think it's a shame that Tony Ridder obeyed his lawyers (OK, he had little choice) when they basically ordered him not to pursue a local buyout of the Merc while the Knight Ridder sale was under way.
