AT LEAST IT ISN'T NEW TIMES. The Chicago Reader and Washington City Paper will be bought by Creative Loafing Media, which owns alt-weeklies in Atlanta, Tampa, Charlotte, and Sarasota. Since moving to D.C. I've developed the typical local feelings about the City Paper: appreciation of smart, savvy coverage like this expose on conservative online social networking community Late Night Shots, but confusion as to why the paper would devote a year of time and research to a seemingly grudge-motivated cover story hatchet job on investigative journalist Murray Waas. Still, the coverage of D.C.'s quick development and gentrification is consistently interesting. So here's hoping the new overlords won't clean house on the news pages. --Dana Goldstein
