The Tribune Gets The Message

We received this anonymous tip yesterday:

The 11th and F offices of the Tribune Co., home to the DC bureaus of the LAT, BaltSun & Chicago Tribune, this morning received a giant placard that reads “You own the place now!”…presumably sent by Sam Zell’s minions.

We poked around and were able to dig up these photos:

One reader tells us that there were boos when the placard was put up in the LATimes newsroom.

Context:

    Tribune Co. (TRB) said Thursday it completed its move to go private by merging with an acquisition unit of the Tribune Employee Stock Ownership Plan.

    Sam Zell, who financed the $8.2

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