The Hartford Courant loses its last shred of dignity

Because of course, any of their journalists who exposes problems at one of their biggest advertisers needs to be fired.

The Courant has been circling the drain for a few years now while Hartford has been spiraling down for decades. (I grew up near Hartford and we lived near there in 2006.)

The Courant started [...]

Sam Zell. Worse than you thought

He personally has little money in Tribune, and funded the purchase with the employee’s stock ownership plan, something they had no say it. Then he deliberately destroyed any quality journalism.

Why is this legal?

Tribune Co. to file bankruptcy

Among other newspapers, the Trib owns the Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times. Sam Zell, aging real estate developer, bought the Trib boasting about how he would pump up the subscriber base, yet by his utter cluelessness and short-sighted greed, has managed to come close to destroying it.

The Phoenix Principle has a superb [...]