unimpressed. And that's O.K., because all I needed was a resting
place to hold some of my pocket notes. Not the stuff that I need to
file---but the kind of stuff that will be rather hard to retrieve when
I want to share it with someone.
I called this Blogg-trail "Sam's Game" because I wondered what
possessed someone like Sam Zell to buy into a corporate entity like
the Tribune Company. I originally thought that the article written
by William Powers for the Spring 2005 issue of
The Wilson Quarterly Magazine might have
been the kind of thing that Sam Zell could
have kept with his pocket notes.
As a country cousin of one of the Tribune's past editors, I have
always had a soft spot for the Tribune and it's allied papers.
The TV stations---eh.
Tribune online and syndicate people have proven to be very alert
and responsive to the contacts that I have had with them.
During the past few years the folks in upper management
appeared to be very insulated from contemporary media culture.
Some how, I can not help but feel, that if The Tribune could
actually be organized as an employee run media company
there might be a vital heart pumping there.
The kind of heart that could provide enough
oxygen to feed the brain enough to actually
figure out complex issues like surviving
bankruptcy and developing an equitable
scheme for Tribune Tower car parking.
Good luck on that.
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