In Wednesday’s edition of the New York Daily News, reporter Larry McShane practically begs someone local to “step up and save New York’s Hometown Paper.”McShane and many of his colleagues fear that Tribune’s current path, a takeover by Alden Global Capital, will cause further harm to the paper.McShane’s column calls Alden a “notorious hedge fund known for decimating newspapers like the Denver Post before picking the bones for profit.”He writes, “To folks like me, veterans of local journalism, and for