Tribune Publishing -> tronc

I believe the DOJ argument was that the combined LAT/OCR would monopolize all the advertising in the LA/OC region.

Which would have been a good argument before cable, satellite and the Internet.

 

Billionaires, Buyouts, and a Newspaper Empire in the Balance: The Continuing Saga of Tronc

 

That's a bit of a long read, but a great article recounting the Chicago Tribune's downward spiral since 2000.

As noted in the link, the Tribune and LA Times were staunchly anti-union for 100-plus years, and crushed any attempts by employees to unionize. It took the ineptitude of Tronc executives to force employees to overcome that history and finally organize in a desperate gambit for survival.

 

Is this just another 3,000-plus-word essay on why how tronc became the shit publishing company today? Otherwise, what's the tl;dr?