Burying the pertinent facts

The following was buried under Erie Inc., on today’s Times-News online Business Page

Tamarack Packaging buys Peacock Printing building

MEADVILLE -- The Times Publishing Co. has sold the former home of Peacock Printing in Meadville to Tamarack Packaging Limited.

The building on Mercer Pike had housed the company's commercial printing division until it was closed in 2006.

Founded in 1966, Tamarack manufactures packing materials, including a variety of vinyl pouches and the packing materials used by Meadville-based Channellock Inc.

"We are using it for manufacturing," Ron Proper, Tamarack's executive vice president, said of the former Peacock building. "We are moving our entire operation over here and have leased our (prior location) out."

Although the sale of the property has been completed, the Erie Times-News' Meadville editorial office will continue to be located in a building on the property.

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Note that this article lacks a host of transaction details with which any competent reporter would have embellished it had it involved any company other than the Times Publishing Co., accompanied by quotes from the seller as well as the buyer.

For example: What was the date of the transaction? What was the purchase price? Why was it sold? If no longer needed, why not?

One of the privileges of owning a newspaper is that you don’t have to give the answers to questions you, as a newspaper, would demand of any other business enterprise undertaking a similar transaction.