The strange saga of John Rogers, the man who bought the Star Tribune’s vintage photo archive | MinnPost

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The strange saga of John Rogers, the man who bought the Star Tribune’s vintage photo archive | MinnPost

Rogers, an Arkansas entrepreneur who bought the predigital photo archives of both the Star Tribune and the Pioneer Press, is facing more than a dozen lawsuits and a pile of unpaid bills. 

via MinnPost: http://www.minnpost.com/media/2015/04/strange-saga-john-rogers-man-who-bought-star-tribunes-vintage-photo-archive

The thought that big-city newspapers like the Star Tribune and Pioneer Press here in Minnesota — and others in Chicago, Detroit and Denver — were willing to hand over (for a nice price) one of their (and their community’s) most valuable historical archives to a character like Rogers is startling in itself, and may explain why so little has been said about the deal.

It is kind of embarrassing.