Beachwood Reporter
Will Cleveland examines the goods on the table. He writes of the Los Angeles Times' importance to Chicago: "Other than the money sent back to Chicago (curiously reminiscent of the money The Outfit sucked out of Vegas and sent back home), none. Unless you think destroying another city's newspaper has civic value." Cleveland gives Newsday a 10% chance of being sold. "Why: Newsday has always been a headache, from its haphazard tabloid style to its in-NYC out-of-NYC strategy. Just getting over circulation scandals." Re freebie tabloid RedEye: "It's Tribune management's idea of the perfect newspaper."
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Tribune denies LAT report about CEO plotting takeover bid (ChiTrib)
