The Chicago Tribune Guild reveals its shallowness and naivete in its plea for a Tribune buyer who \"understands that meaningful journalism isn\u2019t accomplished by layoffs and cutbacks, by disregard and greed.\" No one buys a newspaper, least of all one with a recent financial track record as depressing as the Tribune's, to gratify its greed. Newspapers are bought for their prestige, their influence and their power to affect pulic policy -- all honorable motives that are implied in the Guild's plea. But unless there are deep pockets to accompany the honorable motives, the best intentions won't save the Tribune.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robservations on the media beat: Here\u2019s your chance to attend a taping of ESPN\u2019s \u201cPardon the Interruption\u201d in Evanston. Hosts Michael Wilbon and Tony Kornheiser will originate their show November 16 from Northwestern University\u2019s newly renovated Welsh-Ryan Arena hours before the Northwestern and Binghamton University men\u2019s basketball game. (Admission and parking are free.) Wilbon is... 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\/19795"}],"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=19795"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19809,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19795\/revisions\/19809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}