mcrem51

LA Times: Zell is Not the Problem

You're missing the point Mr. Fredrickson. The only reason Mr. Jarvis compares the Tribune to Fannie and Freddie and Lehman is to prove that old, venerable institutions can die.
Clearly, revenue lost from classified, recruitment and online initiatives has hurt the daily newspaper. But the newspaper was never allowed to change or adapt, in part due to shareholders, but mostly because of the newsroom.
Editors - still to this day! - think a front page story is more important than breaking a story online.
I fall into the key demographic sought by advertisers, and root for newspaper companies like Tribune by subscribing to their product(s) and patronizing their advertisers when I can. Clearly I enjoy reading good journalism.
But lawsuits like this prove that the culture Mr. Zell's been trying to change never will with the writers and editors currently in place, because those writers and editors would rather see Zell fail than keep their jobs. To me, this is idiocy.
Editorial ego has led to the daily newspaper's downfall, and as a daily newspaper consumer, I’m angry at that.