Sex, Profanity and Bankruptcy at the Tribune Company
Late last night, The New York Times published a scathing, 4,000-word investigation of the Tribune Company, the parent company of The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times, WGN America and other properties. The story's message is threefold: Under the leadership of real-estate billionaire Sam Zell, who took over in 2007, the company has gone bankrupt, sacrificed its journalistic integrity and become a veritable "frat house" of lurid and profane behavior. The heavily sourced article details loads of locker-room humor, office trysts and heated anecdotes from aggrieved former employees .
Getting ahead of the story, the Chicago Tribune's chief executive Randy Michaels sent an e-mail to employees instructing them to "ignore the noise" of the
