Paper Losses -- The Twenty-Five Year Struggle

Two newspapers -- the Detroit News and the Detroit Free Press -- battled for dominance for a quarter of a century. When The News succumbed to a takeover bid by Gannett News, the battle ended. The terms of that armistice pose their own questions. Journalist Bryan Gruley, Washington correspondent for the Detroit News and author of the book "Paper Losses," examines the legal and ethical aspects of corporate behavior and antitrust legislation raised in this controversy.

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