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San Francisco Chronicle Boardroom Brawl the Talk of the Town.(Originated from The Sacramento Bee, Calif.)

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, May, 1995 by DeBare, Ilana

SAN FRANCISCO--May 29--Take one sprawling family of millionaire newspaper heirs and heiresses. Add some political differences and a set of financial worries. Throw in an alleged family conspiracy, a boardroom coup, a lawsuit by one cousin against more than a dozen others, and a bevy of dark-suited lawyers...

No, it's not daytime TV's latest answer to lulls in the O.J. trial. It's boardroom politics at the San Francisco Chronicle - where a family feud has made the newspaper itself part of the evening news, and revived questions about how long this city will remain a two-newspaper town.

"In family owned newspapers like this, when the heirs begin to quarrel, it's very ominous for the continuation of family control," said Ben Bagdikian, former dean of the...

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