'Chicago Tribune' Readers Respond to Deal

By: E&P Staff The Chicago Tribune put up a message board this morning for feedback on the sale of its parent company, Tribune, and the coming offloading of the Chicago Cubs.

Here are the first six quite sharp comments.
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I think this may actually help the Chicago Tribune, I believe that newspapers tend to operate better as privately held companies. Hopefully, this will benefit the public too.

Terrific--going private means better long-term decisions regarding newsroom. Selling Cubs makes it better. Good for readers, and all parties.

Good--at least in the fact that the Conflict Of Interest journalism will finally end between the Tribune newspaper's biased coverage toward the Cubs and against the Sox.

I wish someone would explain how the money works. How can Zell pay 13 billion dollars for the company , but only put in $300 million?

Deeply mixed but better Zell than some outsider.

It's a sad day for American journalism -- Andy Martin