Sun-Times' new owners "a colorful bunch"

Chicago Reader talks to/about the Sun-Times' well-covered new owners. Good reporting here.

http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/kevin-flynn-jim-tyrees-investment-group-and-the-sun-times/Content?oid=1222994

Also, it looks like the Sun-Times needs a new sports editor.

http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/towerticker/2009/11/chicago-suntimes-sports-boss-stu-courtney-jumps-to-tribune-web-site.html#more

 

Looks like a bunch with all the potential to make Sam Zell look like Katherine Graham.

 

Sam Zell sh*** bigger than them. He'd be the first to say so, too, in just those words.

 

"Colorful" is one of those newspaper adjectives. That is, it has a real meaning -- "look for the name behind this adjective to end up in the police briefs of Metro."

 

A repo man spends his life getting into tense situations.

 

who inherits the sports editor job?

 

Joel Boyd or Roman Modrowski, perhaps? I'll admit, however, I'm not up on my Sun-Times assistant sports editors.

 

Boyd's at Trib, I believe, and Roman at ESPN Chicago.

 

Then I probably should have kept my thoughts to myself.

 

Joel Boyd is indeed at the Trib, and doing a fine job may I say so!

 

I'm sure there is someone working hard and putting the paper out every day, but this sounds like an old, black-and-white movie in which someone walks into the cockpit of a plane and finds that there is no pilot or co-pilot.

 

What does that do to morale of the staff, to have the top man jump to the competition?

I know that SEs are working stiffs, too, in most cases. But in the relative world of a sports department, and leadership and all that, mustn't this feel like the captain of the Titanic jumping into the lifeboat ahead of even Billy Zane?

Then again, maybe morale is so low, it can't get lower.