Week 6: Big Sky McClatchy only held the Knight Ridder papers for a few months. before the purchase of the same papers by Media news group. McClathchy was pretty much ill affected by the deal. The problem with newspapers is they fired most of their writers, and instead buy articles from other companies to replace the articles that writers would have produced in house. These articles are all on the internet. But, if the papers have their own writers, and they do not allow them to be reprinted or offered on websites, they would sell more papers. Local news becomes neglected, as no other papers write about local news except for the large cities.