Celebrate Minions! Celebrate!

Even been to a celebration that no one actually wants to celebrate? Such was the scene last night at the Tribune Company’s open house for its new superbureau. Of course the main point to many observers was that there was a time when the combined Washington staffs of the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Newsday, The Baltimore Sun, the Daily Press, the Hartford Courant, the Morning Call, the Orlando Sentinel, and the Sun Sentinel–plus Tribune’s broadcasting arm–wouldn’t have all fit on one floor.