Buzz Saw

After the News, what?

by John Hilton & Eve Silberman

posted 3/24/2009

"Attention please: the Ann Arbor News is closing." Sales rep Vikki Enos, first with the buzz as usual, announced the news over the Observer intercom at 9:55 Monday morning. I discarded the email message I'd been about to forward from restaurant reviewer Bix Engels--the first of a dozen that delivered the incredible news over the next few hours. In between came calls from worried advertisers who'd mistakenly heard that it was the Observer, not the News, that was closing. (Some wanted to express their sympathy, only to embarrassedly withdraw

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