There are bad ideas, then there is this...

The Tribune Co., in the throes of bankruptcy, is developing a proprietary tablet that would aggregate Tribune content for the user. Would be given to the user free of charge.
Oh, and the tablet -- most likely -- would be rendered a technological dinosaur in a matter of months. ("Paging RIM, RIM please pick up the white courtesy phone and tell Tribune Co. the difficulties of the tablet market.")

http://www.scpr.org/blogs/economy/2011/12/16/4021/trouble-triblets-why-tribunes-proprietary-tablet-b/

Tribune Co. developing "New Coke."
This won't end well.

 

The longer I work in this industry, and the more I see how ill-equipped it is for the high-tech future, the more I'm convinced almost every traditional newspaper company WILL NOT be the primary sources of information in their community going forward.