MY LOCAL PAPER HAS bought my local alt-weekly. It’s probably a good business move for them, but it makes Knoxville even more of a one-newspaper town.

UPDATE: Brendan Loy: “Big national developments like Rubert Murdoch’s bid for the WSJ get all the headlines, but it’s the consolidation of ownership and lack of competition in local markets that upsets me most, because local newspapers, TV and radio are the predominant non-Internet news sources for the average person, and the realities of the modern market have robbed them — particularly the newspapers — of the journalistic vitality they once had.”