Category Archives: Opinion

Randy Michael’s Unconscionable Request

When the heat is on, modern captains of industry never fail to take care of themselves at the expense of others, particularly the people they exhort to work harder, better, faster, smarter. Tribune execs are a shining and audacious example of what is wrong with contemporary American business. Tribune CEO Randy Michaels fears that he [...]

And Another Thing

I’m sure this is naivete talking, but if there was fraud involved in the sale of the Tribune Co. to Sam Zell and his so-called partner employees in the ESOP, then why isn’t one of the lawyers buzzing around the company’s remains seeking to recover some of those millions in assets that were paid to [...]

The Value Of An Independent Press

Looks like an L.A. Times pressman has been suspended for writing about events at the paper’s printing facility. There is a chance he will be fired, apparently. This sounds like shades of Denis Horgan’s experience at The Courant, only worse. I understand why a company might want to muzzle or punish an employee for revealing [...]

Where Fairness, Reputation Matter

Anyone who reads this blog even occasionally knows how I loathe and despise the journalism industry’s use of instant, anonymous, unmoderated message boards such as Topix. They undermine everything a good journalistic enterprise should stand for. I am not alone in this, of course, but few papers have the spine or determination to create online [...]

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