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Sam Zell To Newspapers: Stop Acting Like Punks
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lawyergay
11/25/08

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Zell bought the Tribune Co. to get his hands on its employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) and as a fancy tax move to trim some of his bill for selling Equity Office Properties in 2007. That he gets to yell at a bunch of harried, panicked editors is just gravy.
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Mount_Prion
11/24/08

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Despite Geriatric Appearance, Newspaper Mogul is Discovered to be Not Quite Toothless

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Weegee's bored
11/24/08

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What's he expect to get with the two bucks, a copy of the Times and half a bagel?
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Mount_Prion
11/24/08

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Sam Zell to Newspapers: Get Off My Lawn

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BookishLatkeish
11/24/08

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Lulz, that's an artist's aged rendition of Smails (when the offer for Julia Allison's 75-year-old nude shots goes down to two bucks).
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tunamelt
11/24/08

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he charmingly scoffs at the expensive pursuit of Pulitzers by newspapers that can't even cover daily news in their own cities:

I'm sorry, but... is this some weird sort of in-joke?

Because the LAT local news coverage is a complete farce.
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Hamilton Nolan
11/24/08

@tunamelt: Correct. Zell is a very astute observer of the biz side but ultimately he's going to fail at Tribune because they're going to decimate the editorial product too much. Doesn't make his advice bad, though.
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tunamelt
11/24/08

@tunamelt: I mean on the part of Zell.

Like, if he's just basically being a giant dick and laughing at the world from on top of a pile of gold coins and sweaty interns, okay. But if he's being sincere, I plan on going to the Redwood and drinking a pint or several, and try to remember what the paper looked like before it basically became a wanna-be USA Today.
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tunamelt
11/24/08

I suppose there's more than one way to totally trash your paper.
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