@TroncOfficial Asks, Twitter Answers

The name that sounds to many like a parody spawns a Twitter parody account.

If Lin-Manuel Miranda announced plans for a Broadway musical about artificial intelligence and robots titled Tronc, would people get excited? Maybe. But when a Twitter account purporting to be connected to Tribune Publishing asked the following question Monday, the answer quantitatively was a collective shrug and, qualitatively, a near unanimous, ‘Uh… still no.’

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Twitter user @the_damn_muTeki, who has temporarily renamed themselves DJ TRONC LEGACYC, thinks this is the best response to tronc’s question:

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Fellow tweeter @MisterJayEm, riffing on the theme of a legacy media company trying to re-brand and the general idea that tronc could be the name of an animated dinosaur character, posits

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