Consensus among the numerous reports of the P-I’s imminent demise seems to rule out an obvious, alternate conclusion: that Hearst might actually find a buyer, potentially sparing us from a life without Cathy Sorbo’s Saturday column. Whether Scripps is able to sell Denver’s Rocky Mountain News by month’s end should serve as a pretty good litmus test for what the market is for a property like the P-I — and there’s at least speculation that the RMN has a handful of suitors.