Scoopless in Seattle: P-I beat on own sad news

The only insult that can compound the injury of having your newspaper shot out from under you is to hear the news first from a competing television station.That’s what happened last week to the staff of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, who learned from KING-TV that Hearst Corp. was planning to put the paper up for sale – and would close it if no buyer were found. Because the odds of finding a