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The company’s digital managing director Roger Green spoke with refreshing honesty by saying he’s sick of upstart local businesses—or “zero-revenue publishers” as he calls them—looking for a free ride from the Gannett (NYSE: GCI) owned publisher’s commercial mass. “You should sit in on some of the joke meetings I’ve been in with with people from no-name start-ups who say we should help them start their business and pay them for the privilege… I’m glad bloggers are starting to suffer from this sort of thing.” He’s open to “reasonable” offers, but warns hyperlocal start-ups that they should either “work with us or take us on”.