While we all are happy and relieved that this Sinclair\/Tribune Media deal is officially dead, I don't agree with the sentiment amongst these comments that Tribune finally came to their senses. Their top executives were reportedly \"all in\" on this deal. They were all in on the bonuses they were due. No one at Tribune came to their senses. Their motivations were simply unexpectedly derailed near the 11th hour thanks to the ruling by the FCC. Tribune Media's execs can now seemingly return to plotting and scheming towards a new buyer that will ultimately fill their pockets even further. At the risk of coming across as cynical, one way or another, those execs will ultimately get their money, station legacy and heritage be damned.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"News that Sinclair Broadcast Group's long-planned merger with Tribune Media crashed and burned this week isn\u2019t the only thing they\u2019re celebrating at WGN-Channel 9. Utter relief that staffers won't be working for what Baltimore Sun critic David Zurawik called \u201cthe most hated company in America\" added to the revelry already in the works over superstar... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18978"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18978"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18988,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18978\/revisions\/18988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}