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Tribune Aims to Sell Newspaper Business
WSJ ^ | Updated February 26, 2013, 3:36 p.m. ET | y SHARON TERLEP And MERISSA MARR

Posted on 02/26/2013 1:53:01 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach

Tribune Co. has enlisted investment banks to help sell its newspaper business, including the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune, people familiar with the matter said Tuesday.

(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; US: California; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: media
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

The Chandler clan got out of the Tribune Co. just in time back in 2007.

http://articles.latimes.com/2007/jun/05/business/fi-tribune5


21 posted on 02/26/2013 2:15:24 PM PST by abb
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To: GeronL

We could turn out a btter paper with a 60’s memeograph machine.


22 posted on 02/26/2013 2:17:03 PM PST by Conspiracy Guy (I voted Republican, no Conservative was on the ballot.)
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To: Paladin2

I could see buying yhat,..fixing it up and renting it out to professionsa;l,...like lawyers and doctors.


23 posted on 02/26/2013 2:17:35 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ((The Global Warming Hoax was a Criminal Act....where is Al Gore?))
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To: Conspiracy Guy

lol

Yes we probably could


24 posted on 02/26/2013 2:18:10 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: GeronL

I still remember the smell of that crazy ink.


25 posted on 02/26/2013 2:20:14 PM PST by Conspiracy Guy (I voted Republican, no Conservative was on the ballot.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
This one fits my screen better - ;-)

http://www.trbimg.com/img-512d1066/turbine/la-fi-mo-tribune-co-hires-investment-bankers-t-001/1920

26 posted on 02/26/2013 2:22:55 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Conspiracy Guy
"I still remember the smell of that crazy ink."

Nothing like having your teacher as your dealer/supplier ;-)

27 posted on 02/26/2013 2:26:15 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Paladin2

It made me sneeze and I hated it but I do remember it.


28 posted on 02/26/2013 2:29:33 PM PST by Conspiracy Guy (I voted Republican, no Conservative was on the ballot.)
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To: Conspiracy Guy

I always liked it. We used to get close and inhale deeply.


29 posted on 02/26/2013 2:31:30 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Conspiracy Guy

i used to love the newspaper format, I wished there were conservatives ones but there aren’t except for the money-losing Washington Times.


30 posted on 02/26/2013 2:35:02 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: Paladin2

I really hated it. I started school in 60. The first I remember memeograph was 65.


31 posted on 02/26/2013 2:38:18 PM PST by Conspiracy Guy (I voted Republican, no Conservative was on the ballot.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

What newspaper business?


32 posted on 02/26/2013 2:41:24 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: ReleaseTheHounds

US or Canadian?


33 posted on 02/26/2013 2:41:53 PM PST by Mr. Lucky
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To: Conspiracy Guy

How about the smell of Ditto ink?

http://theyalwayscomeback.blogspot.com/2008/02/ditto-machine.html


34 posted on 02/26/2013 2:42:56 PM PST by abb
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To: abb

Ditto printing is the smell people are thinking of.


35 posted on 02/26/2013 2:46:49 PM PST by Misterioso (The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap. - Ayn Rand)
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To: abb
good luck with that, it'd be easier to sell a blind three legged dog...

36 posted on 02/26/2013 2:47:11 PM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: abb

The Ditto was before my time.


37 posted on 02/26/2013 2:51:39 PM PST by Conspiracy Guy (I voted Republican, no Conservative was on the ballot.)
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To: Misterioso

Not me. I’m only 59 years old.


38 posted on 02/26/2013 2:53:15 PM PST by Conspiracy Guy (I voted Republican, no Conservative was on the ballot.)
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To: Conspiracy Guy

Right. I’m 58 and I used service those things. That fluid burns like hell when you get it in a cut.


39 posted on 02/26/2013 4:24:28 PM PST by CrazyIvan (Obama's birth certificate was found stapled to Soros's receipt.)
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To: Paladin2
Circling the drain, they are.

You wish. It doesn't take an operating profit to make owning a newspaper profitable.

40 posted on 02/26/2013 10:06:50 PM PST by Carry_Okie (The environment is too complex and too important to be "protected" by government.)
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