Sam Zell Continues to Kill the Newspaper Business
What a week for media moguls (and it’s only Tuesday). First, we have endless coverage of Michael Wolff’s book about Rupert Murdoch and now Peter Osnos, a media fellow at The Century Foundation and vice-chair of the Columbia Journalism Review, is taking on Sam Zell and the Z man’s disdain for newspapers — of which he owns, you know, a whole bunch including the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune.
The difference between Murdoch, “the last great newspaper guy,” and Zell is that the latter entrepreneur doesn’t seem to give a fuck about the papers he purchased when buying the Tribune Co.
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