Paper Routs

In “The Only Game in Town” [Report, September], David Sirota unjustly mentions an old publisher of Philadelphia’s two dailies in his catalogue of newspaper owners who use their papers for personal gain. He implies that Brian Tierney, who took over the Inquirer, the Daily News, and philly.com in 2006, meddled in the newsroom. While many at the papers feared he would do so, he never did.

Sirota cites a strange example to indicate impropriety: a lawsuit that alleged the Inquirer published negative stories about a local charter school as retribution for its backing out of a business deal…