Gannett to buy Tribune??

Nor Australia.

 

Man, I have fond memories of working there 1-2 nights per week as the "composing room shift" person before pagination. Didn't have to be there until about 7, but you didn't get home until almost 3.

And we used that building to produce the papers during hurricane aftermaths because the main Fort Lauderdale office was usually shut down.

 

A lot of snark in this but I'll bring it here just because I chuckled at the reference to Ferrovian journalism.

Tribune Publishing slides toward parody

 

Negative.

 

G upped the ante from $12.25 to $15.

No way Ferro survives this, right?

Gannett raises bid for Tribune Publishing to $15 a share

 

And rejected again .

 

I love print newspapers to death. But there's no way I would use the printed product the way TPUB's new, billion-dollar investor envisions.

Tribune Investor Seeks to Revive Print With ‘Machine Vision’

 

Having every picture turn into video the second my eye looked at it would be extremely annoying to me. If I'm scanning over a page or a website, I don't want to stop and watch even a Vine-length video.

 

Peak shit-show ahead:

Tribune investor calls Soon-Shiong deal 'disturbing ... distasteful'

 

The story "Tribune Publishing Slides Toward Parody" it mentions "entertainment cities" and lists these: Hong Kong, Seoul, Rio de Janiero, Mumbai, Lagos, Moscow and Mexico City.

When the hell did Lagos, Mumbai and Mexico City become entertainment cities?

 

There are more "entertainment cities" in the world than New York and Los Angeles.

Really.

 

Mumbai is the center of Bollywood, a big deal outside the US.

I'm fascinated by what this guy proposed. At least he has an idea (which most in the biz don't now) and it's better than the "puppies!" formula. Hope the remaining workers don't get hosed like they did under Zell, that's all.