Zell's Tribune: The Canary in a Scary Mine

Sam Zell's folly will be the first in a wave of newspaper restructuring and consolidation

For the foreseeable future, Tribune will remain intact (apart from selling the Cubs baseball franchise). Perversely enough, it helps that there's apparently no one willing to offer knockout prices for key assets, and that those assets are declining in value so quickly no one is sure what many of them are worth. If the businesses and deal markets were robust, lenders would be salivating at the thought of breaking up the company. The sheer complexity of the ... Full Story »

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by Fred Gatlin - Dec. 10, 2008

This article attempts to tell us about the bankrupt Tribune and problems with other newspapers. We still seem to have the same idea. If you can not make money, then you better consolidate. If you join two or three companies that are losing money, I bet you will lose more money.

Wake up folks our economy is going to change.

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