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      <![CDATA[@ BobM.
    
    The Tribune&acirc;&#128;&#153;s e-mail-the-staff list is not a true indicator of who&acirc;&#128;&#153;s left at the Tower. I'm still on it as of May 27. I got my severance package last August. 
    
    But I hope Alan is still there if that&acirc;&#128;&#153;s what he wants. My years at the Trib were the best. It&acirc;&#128;&#153;s heartbreaking to see what&acirc;&#128;&#153;s happening.
        
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      <![CDATA[Holy smokes...they really took a hatchet to Sports, didn't they? n I see the names of a lot of good people whom I used to work with a decade ago.  So sad for all of them that they were let go.
        
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      <![CDATA[The Trib is trying many (some silly and most just plain foolish) things to keep afloat.  Moving bits of the regular Sunday fare over to Saturday in an attempt to get folks to buy 2 days' worth of their mediocre writing and thinking.  Dismissing the only art critic working for a major paper (really- the Reader is sinking fast as well)is yet another odd and -in the long run- suicidal attempt to keep going.  The irony here is that the small art 
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      <![CDATA[I'm not convinced that Alan Artner is gone.  His name still appears in the Trib staff directory as of May 9.
        
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      <![CDATA[Candy Cusic took my picture for a Trib article on my 'hood.  Lou Carlozo's wife preaches at a church where I've sung gigs.  NOW IT'S PERSONAL.  This sux but I am praying that their off-laying will lead to better things.  And not just for them, but for all of them.
        
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      <![CDATA[Nice to see that someone mentioned photographers but CC???  One big whore and lazy bastard!
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Lifelong newspaper reader who ran out of patience]]></author>
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      <![CDATA["good luck seeing how Daley and Stroger are screwing us when the last of the watchdogs is gone. Good luck forcing the federal government to treat our money like real money"
    
    For so many years we the people have needed help on both of those fronts and many more. It's a shame we haven't had large civic enterprises in each city and region each providing salaries to hundreds of salaried professional journalists so they could comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable, speak truth to power, get answers to the tough ques -- oh, wait.
    
    All those who still think that the newspaper journalism sector has come close to justifying the level of resources that our society has been devoting to it, raise your hand. Right. 
    
    The new ways of performing and delivering real journalism are mostly at this point theoretical, and the ultimate good answer sure as shit ain't blogging or twittering. But as a voter, as an engaged citizen, as an arts lover, as a sports fan, as frankly just a sentient American who thirsts to understand the world around him, I'm done waiting for the newspaper sector to get good enough to justify its cost in _time_. (MY time, not theirs.) Here's the real bottom line: if newspaper journalism as practiced in my lifetime was in daily reality anywhere close to it's own self-image, then all the brainless strategy flailing and arrogant ignorant real estate tycoons and hyperactive bloggers and promoting of good reporters into incompetent managers and all the rest that Michael Miner has been writing up for years, all put together, wouldn't have resulted in what's happening now to newspapers. Newspaper would be radically _changing_, sure, but not dying. 
    
    Technological change doesn't kill off worthwhile content; it can expose underwhelming content. And it's the content, stupid. Always has been.
        
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      <![CDATA[Thanks for the thoughts, Karen.
    
    I had exactly the same thought about the 53 layoffs--that they were less than the expected 90 for the same 2 possible reasons you mention. I have no direct experience with it, but from all accounts, the prefab-page project is a fairly rocky enterprise. And this is one of Kern's stellar ideas (the other being counting bylines). So maybe they realized they should keep a few designers and editors on for a while till they get the kinks ironed out. Then, pfffft, out they go.
        
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      <![CDATA[P.S. I'm listening to Charles Gibson on ABC National News and one of the items, after the commercial is going to be on the Baltimore Sun people who were told their jobs were gone while they were covering a Orioles' baseball game. (And that X number of other Sun employees also were "laid off.) (Of course, "laid off" is inaccurate---that term means your employer could call you back.) Can't imagine the TribCo people will be happy at this national attention---although I suspect they don't care.
        
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      <![CDATA[Hi, at.tribune:
    
    Well, I can't imagine they won't immediately become aware of it; I understand from reading other blogs and postings (Charles Apple's, particularly) that the production work is pretty sloppy. Plus, if you're used to getting national news that impacts you/your area---I suspect that will be glaringly missing.
    
    Also, I read today (TH 04/30) that the percentage at the Sun evidently is closer to 33%. As for that 20 percent figure at the Trib---the year is not over, alas. Call me suspicious (cynical?), but I wonder if Gerry Kern, et al, changed the numbers at the last minute because there had been so much reporting of the 80- to 90-person figure. That gave him a reason to do a scolding memo on "mis-information." Or, at the very least, knowing this page-sharing was going to occur, more copy editors, etc., were kept than originally had been planned, so that new bit of "journalism" could get that up and running. 
    
    You know, since Kern was named editor, I have thought and said that he would never want to be known as "Gerould Kern, the last editor of the Chicago Tribune," because that would be the clause that always would accompany his name. And so, I had some hope. Now, with all that has happened, to the people and the product, I believe that distinction now belongs to Ann Marie Lipinski.
        
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      <![CDATA[The tribune will go the way of the Daily News and the American, and good riddens.   The don't report any news and don't deserve to be a newspaper
        
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      <![CDATA[@Karen Callaway
    
    And is it just coincidence that the newsroom cuts at the Sun will amount to 20 percent of the staff, which was the original plan at the Tribune, too? Supports the notion that some Zellite just pulled the number out of thin air and management implemented. No regard for what any individual paper might need. Nice detail about the guards suddenly escorting management out of the newsroom. Were they 'cuffed and gagged? The Sun, by the way, used to be one of the great or near-great U.S. newspapers. 
    
    Noted as well in the latest developments from the Sun is the Tribune's effort to assemble all the national and foreign news here in Chicago, distributing dumbed-down prefabricated pages that all the Tribune newspapers are forced to use. Can't imagine readers in those markets are very happy with this arrangement--if they're even aware of it.
        
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      <![CDATA[@ been there: Talk about hitting the nail on the head, re other TribCo. papers! The stories out of Baltimore the last couple days re the Sun journalists being let go---and how brutally that evidently was handled for many of them---are pretty appalling. Rather like salt in our collective wound, coming so soon after the Trib "event" last week.
        
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      <![CDATA[A lot of papers not run by Sam Zell are going through the same thing. Face it, Trib management were never particularly sweethearts. Some of those guys let go in sports were real gems, others nice guys but not the most talented. One of the bigger talents ousted is Chuck Cherney. Great photographer.
        
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      <![CDATA[I'm very, vy sorry to read that Lucy Hoy was let go.
        
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      <![CDATA["One thing that has not been mentioned in this post is that as these fine people were being shown the door on Thursday, they were also told that they would have NO MEDICAL benefits come Friday..."
    
    I don't think this is accurate. They say that, however in fact it takes about a week or two for the insurance to actually be canceled.
    
    My advice, if you need something big and expensive done, call your attorney. The Trib may still have to foot the bill. But do it quickly. Good luck.
        
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      <![CDATA[Bob Vanderberg is one of the good guys. It's a sad day, not only for Bob but all of us who will miss, his knowledge, wit, writing, and his genuine caring for everyone.
        
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      <![CDATA[can only hope one or more of the old-timers have gotten together & discussed or started a book  - call it "The Demise of a Great American Newspaper - from the Civil War to the Cheeseburger War" ... if that's too much ground, perhaps coverage from clayton kirkpatrick on down ...
    
    or maybe a group memoir, "Life in the Gothic Tower," or some such thing.
    
    in any event, i'd be especially interested in reading the "jim bob" chapter.
        
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      <![CDATA[Thank you, Tribnomore and at.tribune, for the previous two comments---what so many of us (have) observed and lived with over the years as we went about our jobs. (And wanted to note here but didn't [or couldn't.])
        
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      <![CDATA[Tribnomore:
    
    This is indeed true. The Zellites aren't sitting right there in the newsroom. Instead, they select and promote surrogates (every one of them pretty marginal journalists, by the way), and these folks in turn promote and preserve their buddies, often not really the top-drawer editors you might want or wish for. So who you go shopping or drinking with is a much better index of your ability to keep your name off the lists of the dearly departed than any kind of measurable merit.
    
    Of course, the general practice is nothing new. In the past, though, really talented people could keep on doing good work, even if their careers weren't being stroked and stoked by Ann Marie or her predecessors. What's new is that the buddy system is now glaringly obvious, as so many of the Tribune's really talented and valuable--but unconnected--people get the boot.
        
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      <![CDATA[There is so much to be sad about. It's clear I was way too naive, but I had hoped that when new leaders took over they would turn the Tribune into more of a meritocracy, moving away from the fiefdoms and friendships that ruled the day. That didn't happen. Instead, people working on certain sections are clearly protected and high profile editors with almost no staff and no content continue to draw their big paychecks. Some people are working like dogs and others are trying desperately to make it look like they're busy.
        
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      <![CDATA[@trib writer
    
    You see a glass half full; I see a glass 80 percent empty.
    
    The key thing is that current Tribune management comes nowhere near to evidencing any good-faith effort to put out the best newspaper with the revenue at hand. The paper is profitable but, in successive waves, management fires people who are far more distinguished than those who remain. They pump out Orwellian memo after Orwellian memo, throwing around terms like "partner" and "right-sizing" that are gross insults to their journalists and their readers. What are we supposed to think?
    
    Good journalism still happens at the Tribune, but it seems almost incidental. By heft, feel, appearance and, mostly, substance, it's a very lightweight, low-grade  product. As a package, it's insulting. 
    
    And it doesn't need to be. Even with the reduced news-to-ad ratio, the Tribune could make far better and more responsible use of the space it has and it could have retained many of the most illustrious names we've seen on the long sad list posted here to publish a paper worthy of one of the world's great cities.
    
    Readers have very little leverage. One is cancelling their subscriptions, with the understanding that they will resubscribe once there is evidence of a return to a product that engages serious readers.
    
    But if you have a better idea how to go about applying a 2-by-4 at high velocity to the clueless Zell management's cranium, let's hear it.
        
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      <![CDATA[One thing that has not been mentioned in this post is that as these fine people were being shown the door on Thursday, they were also told that they would have NO MEDICAL benefits come Friday. So after years of service and as Sam likes to call them Partners, he kicks them to the curb and cuts off their medical. Nice, Real nice. For those of you that are still working at the paper,remember this is how Zell is treating his PARTNERS. Keep drinking the Kool-Aid. So as Zell wants to give those great managers a bonus for carrying out his orders, he dumps all over the former PARTNERS. Shows you what kind of Partners are still left at the Tribune. Don't turn your back.
        
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      <![CDATA[I simply want to say it was an honor to collaborate with Jim Miller, Carolyn Starks, Susan Kuczka, Terry Bannon, Pat Reardon, Eric Benderoff, Mary Dedinsky, Beth Botts, Suzanne Cosgrove, Brenda Butler, Eric Benderoff and many others who have already left.
    
    I cannot stop thinking about the kind people whose lives have been turned upside down by business decisions, internal politics and the economy.
    
    Many still have children to educate and all of have roots that have been put down in the Chicago area.
    
    I sincerely will pray to god you may find solace eventually in what has happened.
    
    Melissa Nagy Deegan
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    Former assistant graphics editor/Metro and Business
        
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      <![CDATA[[[Dave Jones April 24th - 11:22 p.m. Reading through all this, it seems a too terrible shame to leave unmentioned the phenomenal 40-year career of now-ex-Trib photojournalist Chuck Cherney.]]
    
    God Bless you and Amen to that.
    
    We are who we are, we do what we do, and life is what it is, but I believe there is some cumulative record or effect of our labors. Pray that someone might say of any of us, "He was honest, he worked hard and he was a good man."
        
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