NEW YORK: Bankers liken a potential acquisition of newspaper publisher Knight Ridder to buying beachfront property: It's a valuable, hard-to-come-by asset, but it's eroding.
The question for private-equity firms, which typically like to exit their investments after about five years, is whether the San Jose, Calif., company's business will suffer more damage before they cash out.
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