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Commitments and Contingencies (Details) - USD ($)	3 Months Ended	12 Months Ended
	Jun. 28, 2009	Sep. 27, 2015	Sep. 28, 2014	Sep. 29, 2013	Feb. 18, 2009
Loss Contingencies [Line Items]
Operating Leases, Rent Expense		$ 3,415,000	$ 3,735,000	$ 3,605,000
Other Commitment		$ 1,156,000
Noncontrolling Interest Redeemed PDLLC, Percent Redeemed	5.00%
Heral Value Liability- Liability Input	10.00%
Pulitzer Step Up Tax Benefit- Amortization Period	15 years
Hearld Value- Increase in Amortizable Tax Basis					$ 258,000,000
Fair Value, Inputs, Level 3 [Member]
Loss Contingencies [Line Items]
Obligations, Fair Value Disclosure				$ 300,000	$ 2,300,000
Herald Value Settlement- Shares			100,000
Herald Value Settlement			$ 298,000

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Hearld Value- Increase in Amortizable Tax Basis- Amount of increase in basis to be amortized for income tax purposes as a result of redeeming the remaining noncontrolling interest.

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Heral Value Liability- Liability Input - Input used in the determination of the liability for the Herald Value, expressed as a percentage of fair value.

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Herald Value Settlement- Shares

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Fair value of obligations measured on a recurring basis.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 820
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 2
-Subparagraph (a),(b)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=36462937&loc=d3e19207-110258

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Amount of rent expense incurred for leased assets, including but not limited to, furniture and equipment, that is not directly or indirectly associated with the manufacture, sale or creation of a product or product line.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Minimum amount of other commitment not otherwise specified in the taxonomy. Excludes commitments explicitly modeled in the taxonomy, including but not limited to, long-term and short-term purchase commitments, recorded and unrecorded purchase obligations, supply commitments, registration payment arrangements, leases, debt, product warranties, guarantees, environmental remediation obligations, and pensions.

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