I’m stunned that you — with so much knowledge of the situation — would write this — “the Philadelphia operation now run by publisher Brian Tierney and editor Bill Marimow” — when you know that Marimow runs only one of the two papers in Phila. You also know that the other, the Daily News edited by Michael Days — just won the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting for exactly the kind of local, shoe-leather journalism that the city does indeed need more of. The J-Lab report, while noting our staffing and news-hole problem, did praise the kind of reporting that our small staff is still able to do. I can’t stress this enough — as there’s a chance we could be under new ownership as soon as next week and it’s critical that people from outside the city understand what a rare and prioeless civic asset the Daily News is.