And I consider the Chicago Tribune guilty of participating in the conspiracy that got Obama installed as our next president. (Does that make me a Truther?)

All I got to say is “LOL!”

I don’t care if it’s karma or just bad business decisions, it gives me a bit of snickering satisfaction to see these Obama campaign papers go the way of Air America.

I cancelled the (NYTimes-owned) Sarasota Herald Tribune a few years ago, and I received my last copy of the liberal St Petersburg Times yesterday (I cancelled my subscription the day after they –SURPRISE!– endorsed Obama). Which is too bad, because other than their liberal views permeating the paper, the little independent was a visually pleasing, artfully done, pretty good read.

Maybe I’ll give The Tampa Tribune a try…at least they didn’t endorse The Messiah.

Can I answer this question with another question? How are the Washington Times and the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review doing?

thuja on December 8, 2008 at 5:00 PM

Great question. Anybody got any links to financials or info. on circulation trends?

Obama’s hometown paper tanking, revenge is sweet, and what may be even sweeter is the NYSlimes tanking. It is in such bad shape it had to take out a mortgage of a quarter billion dollars on its headquarters in NYC. Hopefully it will not be big enough to fail and we will be rid of this lib pestilence by the end of Obama’s term.

eaglewingz08 on December 8, 2008 at 7:46 PM

Ding Dong the Witch is Dead….”

I would pay ten grand to be the one who hands out the pink slips. Maureen, you listening?

Oh Joy!

I’m serious. They really do love baseball and the Cubs would be a class act and break the curse with foreign management. Besides, American curses like that don’t apply to foreigners anyway.

If we are gonna be owned by non-citizens, at least sell the Cubs to somebody who loves the game.

Except when they won’t, like release tht tape of Obama before the election.

A chirpy letter to our readers (or what’s left our readers) is called whistling while walking through the cemetary, and I think it *must* make the remaining LA Times’ employees feel dirt-bad.

I wonder if in six or nine months we’ll start getting blow-by-blow written accounts of ex-”journalists” as they try unsuccessfully to insert themselves into the current economy. And discover how despised they are by EVERYone. Obama will need to start another Affirmative Action program where “journalists” get the same sort of favoritism as his black brothers and soul sisters.

Good.

The Trib called my husband to ask “Why?”.
We told them they had become too liberal, and if they kept this up they would only LOSE more readers.

So SAD, but TRUE!

Zell still hasn’t sold off the Cubs and Wrigley Field, two questionable purchases by previous management, and likely won’t get many offers now when the credit markets have tightened.

Ed

Wait a minute, Ed. I hate the Tribune more than anyone, but let’s be clear, here: The Tribune bought the Cubs for something like $30 million from the Wrigley family. The value of the franchise has been estimated (absurdly) as high as $1 billion. Now, they certainly aren’t going to get a billion for them, but they might get $700-800 million.

That certainly doesn’t sound like a questionnable investment to me.

As these outlets get sold off to pay creditors, will conservatives start buying them and entering the media market in force?

Will the Dems allow that to happen?

You mean that newspaper is going bankrupt?

Thank you, God. I owe you one. Love, Tony.

As for the Cubbies…Mark Cuban has truther-ish tendencies.
He gets the Cubs and I’ll switch to the Astros.

As Michelle notes, the potential destruction of Tribune gives others an opportunity to enter the media market. As these outlets get sold off to pay creditors, will conservatives start buying them and entering the media market in force? Or has the economic model of newspapers proven so poor that no one who cares about a return on investment can afford to buy one?

Can I answer this question with another question? How are the Washington Times and the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review doing?

Sell the Cubs to Mark Cuban. I’d like to see him as a MLB owner, even though that thought frightens Bud Selig. Which is another point in Cuban’s favor.

Cuban was popped for insider trading so that won’t happen.

You want to see who has the money and why what ever Obama
will do won’t matter?

Dubai

Why is the One not riding in on his unicorn and saving his hometown paper?

roux on December 8, 2008 at 4:19 PM

The Black Caesar would prefer there to be no media. Well, maybe MSNBC but that is about it. He knows, as do all tyrants, that the people will turn on him. He just needs to hold them back for about 8 years so it would suit him best to have people he cannot control, go away.

Since quitting, I’ve followed the Times’ downward trajectory with interest, waiting to see whether it would ever acknowledge that one of its big problems was a chronic editorial failure to make the news reporting something close to objective. I’ve listened to interviews with its editors and have even had some lengthy e-mail discussions with its ombudmen. I heard at least a half-dozen reasons that the Times was hemorraghing readers, but never once was one of the reasons its ever-worsening leftward tilt.

My perception is that the Times’ failure to acknowledge the corrosion of its credibility through agenda-driven reporting was a large component in its inability to retain readers. It never seemed to realize that in the age of the new media, its customers can think for themselves, they have options, and they vote with their feet.

The Trib is going bankrupt because they didn’t wuv Obama enough. /sarc

Realist on December 8, 2008 at 3:37 PM

Oh I think they love Obummer enough. I have just canceled my remaining Sunday delivery of the Chicago Tribune because it seems the only section that doesn’t have fawning stories on Mister Look-at-me-Im-president is the coupons. I have read the Tribune since I was a kid growing up in IL and it used to be a good paper. Now its all Obama and they switched the design to make it more cool and I HATE IT! The comics suck, the Magazine sucks, the whole thing sucks. Let them go bankrupt. I can get Fox News and Hot Air on my Blackberry to go with my Sunday morning coffee and cereal.

Hopefully I helped on sending this lying bloated turd of a company on its way to dissolution.

Maybe if we’re lucky we’ll see some kind of video from the employees like the one the UAW did that we can laugh at.