Comments on Tell Zell: Parade of Falseness

I was deeply disappointed by yesterday's call. Not...

2008-07-23T07:33:00.000-08:00

I was deeply disappointed by yesterday's call. Not by what Sam or Randy had to say, I think they stayed on script for the most part, except that slip about doing things now that they wanted to do in 2010.

I was more disappointed in the questions that were asked. If I were a reporter I would have wondered about whether or not Zell is just going to sell 95-97% stakes in all assets to avoid taxes. I would wonder why anybody should believe anything Zell or Michaels say given what they have done in 6 months and given the questionable recent hirings of Tribune Interactive.

To me, yesterday was a missed opportunity to get some answers.

trying to use the same reporter or reporters to pr...

2008-07-23T05:10:00.000-08:00

trying to use the same reporter or reporters to produce nat/forn news for all the tribune papers is stupid. it necessarily means that fewer stories can be covered and papers can't pursue what's important to them.

the readers will be the big losers. besides, of course, the jobless journalists.

Don't forget to blame the Chandlers. They created ...

2008-07-22T20:19:00.000-08:00

Don't forget to blame the Chandlers. They created this mess by selling the company for more than it was worth on paper to a non-journalist.

I guess we know why he's called the "grave dancer....

2008-07-22T20:11:00.000-08:00

I guess we know why he's called the "grave dancer." We didn't know it would be ours.

It's also obvious that despite their raging about ...

2008-07-22T19:21:00.000-08:00

It's also obvious that despite their raging about new ideas, that they, in fact, have none. The idea of packaged national and foreign news pages to be used by papers around the country is no different from using one deejay for multiple markets while pretending they're local. It's all bullshit.