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Chicago Sun-Times devotes entire front page to begging for a new owner

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by MisterCreosote, May 16, 2017.

  1. MisterCreosote

    MisterCreosote Well-Known Member

  2. Sports Barf

    Sports Barf Well-Known Member

    I can't imagine anybody would want to own a paper where Jay Mariotti gets to be a columnist
     
  3. cisforkoke

    cisforkoke Well-Known Member

    Mariotti hasn't written a column for this paper since 2008.

    I have no issue with this sort of disclosure. Maybe it would have been better as an inside page, but this seems like more of an explanation than begging.

    All of that aside, Chicago will be a one-newspaper town within 18 months.
     
  4. Riptide

    Riptide Well-Known Member

    I can't imagine anybody would want to own a paper where Mike Royko gets to be a columnist.
     
  5. MisterCreosote

    MisterCreosote Well-Known Member

    So, does "tronc" want to buy it just to kill it?
     
  6. cisforkoke

    cisforkoke Well-Known Member

    Of course.
     
  7. QYFW

    QYFW Well-Known Member

    Have family in Chicago. They get the Tribune all the time. Only buy the Sun-Times off big events to send me the covers.
     
  8. Bronco77

    Bronco77 Well-Known Member

    Which is a shame, although it's a bit of surprise the Sun-Times has managed to hold on this long.

    Don't know what it's like now, but the Sun-Times' coverage of the city itself generally was superior to the Tribune's back when I was a regular reader of both papers (with the Trib dominating in the suburbs).

    And yeah, Mariotti's presence there left a stench, but the sports section also employed terrific reporters and columnists over the years and covered Chicago sports aggressively.

    One sentence in that front-page story caught my eye: "We believe an organization that can bring substantial digital resources can help and is the best path for the Sun-Times to succeed long-term." Did Jim Kirk actually watch that train wreck of a video featuring tronc's digital gurus last year? And have those gurus actually done anything productive in the 11 months since that much-lampooned video appeared?
     
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  9. MisterCreosote

    MisterCreosote Well-Known Member

    People thought the same thing about the Philadelphia Daily News when it was taken over by the Inquirer's parent company.
     
  10. cisforkoke

    cisforkoke Well-Known Member

    The Sun-Times is a shell with a flag on top. The interior is made up of USA Today pages and content.

    Maybe there is some way it stays alive in a tronc acquisition, but I cannot imagine what that way would be.
     
  11. I Should Coco

    I Should Coco Well-Known Member

    When I was in college, I came back to Chicagoland to work for a couple summers and lived with my grandparents (my folks had moved).

    My grandpa would send me to the 7-Eleven to get Lotto tickets and a Sun-Times. A union guy until the end, he hated the Tribune because it was a "businessman's and banker's paper."

    Now the Sun-Times and Tribune combined don't have the circulation either of them had individually in the 1990s.
     
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  12. PCLoadLetter

    PCLoadLetter Well-Known Member

    That's terrible. what about the childre....

    Oh, I'm sorry. I misread the thread title as "pegging."

    Never mind.
     
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