Chicago Reader
...turning over the New York City Ballet to Radio City Music Hall, says
Michael Miner. A journalist friend in Los Angeles e-mails him: "Within the communities that matter here, the Tribune has evolved from potential savior to Darth Vader. While 20-plus-percent profit margins hardly raise an eyebrow in Chicago... those sorts of profits are recognized for what they are in LA, obscene and unnecessarily regressive. If the studios could count on that kind of return on all their products -- well, they know it's impossible."
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LAT's Henry Weinstein tells Amy Goodman: Sports columnist
Bill Plaschke said it was as if ex-editor
Dean Baquet was being asked to cut his shortstop, his right fielder and his first baseman, and to play with six guys. "And the question is, just where do you stop?"
(Democracy Now)
