Monday, October 18, 2010

And Out Goes Michaels...



From the NYT:

Tribune Board Said Ready to Oust Chief Executive
By DAVID CARR AND TIM ARANGO
Published: October 18, 2010

The board of directors of the Tribune Company is expected to ask for the resignation of Randy Michaels, the controversial chief executive of the company, on Tuesday, according to a person directly involved in the matter.

The individual, who spoke on the condition of not being identified, said the board had lost confidence in the ability of Mr. Michaels to lead the troubled company.

Mr. Michael’s resignation would follow by days the exit of another top executive at the media company, Lee Abrams, Tribune’s chief innovation officer, who resigned on Friday after sending a sexually explicit memo to the entire company.
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Although details are being kept under tight wraps, your humble reporter has received this Exclusive!Video! of what my inside sources assure me are the hidden webcam feeds of the Michaels' negotiations -- as they are unfolding in real time -- from high atop the Dark Tower itself:

2 comments:

StonyPillow said...

Couldn't happen to a more deserving clown. But the next one will be worse, only without the frat boy stuff. Depend on it.

I've finally broken my Tribune habit (started after Royko fled the Murdoch-owned Sun-Times in '84). If the Tribune's the best paper in Chicago, we ain't got no paper. And I've got better uses for $415 a year than reading their bull.

deering said...

Hey, drift!

By any chance do you have any personal tales-from-the-Trib-trenches? (I don't recall seeing any on your blog.) Or perhaps a eulogy for this ghastly crew? Come on, homes--we're waiting with bated breath out here...:)