NPR : Tribune's Plan to Cut Paper's Staff Sparks Revolt

Tomorrows Tribune meeting is going to be huge. I'm not sure Wall Streets obsession with growth when you're making huge profits. It seems that the trust between a city and its newspaper has been severely eroded. I'm not sure as a Chicagoan that we have any papers here that fit the bill of trying to hold onto the public trust. The Sun-Times is all about circulation and bosses ripping off the company so they can eat dinner with the Queen. The Trib looks to be this heartless beast that is trying to kill the L.A. Times. The Tribune itself as a paper is a joke. No one outside Chicago reads it. Not that's that's a big deal, but being such a large city and the capital of the Midwest, you'd expect something more. The writers try, but the Tempo section is awful and way to full of pieces from wire services. Enough of my rant on the Trib.

This Board meeting tomorrow should shake out some things. My bet is the L.A. Times gets some new leadership in the next few months. More assets sold to raise $$ to pay off investors. FitzSimons is not long as CEO. He's got about 15 things pulling at him and he's not going to satisfy any of them. My one regret is that Chicago newspaper readers aren't demanding more from the Trib in making it a better read.