“We will wait every local paper out and let them continuously bleed until we are the last ones standing. We will suck them dry of their best talent at every moment.”
That quote came from “The Athletic” in 2017 a year after it started as a subscription-based website.
Ironically, that quote was told to the New York Times, which eventually bought “The Athletic” for $500 million, and now the Times has ended its sports coverage, turning it all over to “The Athletic.”
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