May 8, 2013

At a protest in Chicago Wednesday, demonstrators expressed dismay about the possibility of David and Charles Koch buying Tribune’s newspapers. It’s kind of hard to tell from tweets how many people are outside Tribune Tower. StandUp Chicago says it’s “dozens,” while Keith Phipps says the protest is “small but vocal.”

 

Here’s another photo.

 

Previously: Los Angeles Times journalists chafe at possible Koch ownership | Pearlstein: Tribune journalists should ‘lob a stink bomb’ into potential Koch bid

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