New owner of San Diego paper is bad news

Two more news items of note about Douglas Manchester, the scary San Diego booster and real estate developer who took over the paper formerly known as the Union-Tribune. He has confirmed that he's interested in acquiring the Orange County Register. And his paper's treatment of a friend-of-Doug in a Sunday profile shows that his idea of "business friendly" really means bad news judgement. The profile, on page one with a picture, is of a frequent advertiser in the paper — who also is the father of Manchester's son-in-law. No wonder the story doesn't refer to him by his last name, Navarra, but by his first name, Jerry, throughout. All in the family.