Chicago Reader
That's what
Michael Miner says about Tribune's Times Mirror deal. More observations from the press critic:
* Today's [Chicago] Tribune is back on its heels, if not down at them, its honor best displayed in its conscientious coverage of its parent company's many troubles.
* The Tribune newsroom tends to regard the Los Angeles Times newsroom as a collection of prima donnas to whom Chicago is, in one Tribune writer's words, a collection of "hayseed interlopers."
* [A Tribune friend of LAT editor
Dean Baquet says:] "You can't be in a better position today than being a noble newspaper editor against a corporate giant, and I mean that in the most positive way for him. I expect he could bounce out of there and land anywhere he wanted to land."
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Tribune shareholders drop lawsuit after judge spots defect (Bloomberg)
