Vegas showdown

Interesting though incomplete L.A. Times story about the "merger" of the two dailies in Las Vegas, including my former employer, the Review-Journal. Incomplete, because to get the whole story, read the take of my friend Steve Sebelius, who worked at both papers and now edits the alt-weekly in town. The Greenspuns' naked (and insufficiently disclosed) self-promotion is beyond belief.

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