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Stop the Presses!

Or at least some of them, as the big NYC tabs consider combining their printing operations:

Rupert Murdoch, whose News Corporation owns The New York Post, and Mortimer B. Zuckerman, the real estate developer and owner of The Daily News, who for years have been bitter tabloid competitors, are considering the unthinkable: cooperation. …
Lawyers for the newspapers are trying to find a structure for an agreement that would not require a joint operating agreement — a mechanism other papers have used that would require creating a separate entity with a separate board and essentially mean merging all business functions while maintaining separate newsrooms.
Instead, the talks have centered on combining printing, distribution and other back-office functions, while maintaining separate companies and news staffs, in an effort to cut millions in annual costs.

Kevin D. Williamson is a former fellow at National Review Institute and a former roving correspondent for National Review.
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