Romenesko Misc.
That's what The Hartford Courant's
Rinker Buck asks about the Tribune Co. He writes in a letter to his publisher: "We all know that eventually the management problems of the company have to be addressed and that one strong possibility is that we'll follow the Knight Ridder model of dismantling the chain. Most of us would regard this as a positive development. In Connecticut there are any number of wealthy, public-spirited investors who would pool their funds to buy the Courant, and then operate the paper successfully for the public good and profit. But why degrade the property now with further cuts? We'd only be delivering into the hands of new owners a weaker franchise that would sell for a lower price." (Tribune has been invited to respond to Buck's charges against the company. The e-mail was sent to communications veep
Gary Weitman.)
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Ex-LAT editor John Carroll: "I would say that if you look at the six years Tribune has owned the Times Mirror papers, all those papers have been badly diminished. It's been a worse talent drain than anywhere I've seen."
(WSJ)
