Friday, July 1, 2011

James O'Shea narrates the Tribune Company's epic collapse

by Michael Miner Days before my review copy of James O'Shea's The Deal From Hell came in the mail, a friend who'd read an excerpt of O'Shea's account of the Tribune Company-Times Mirror merger and its calamitous aftermath e-mailed me to rip the author. At issue: O'Shea's failure to be up-front about the friendship between his ex-boss Ann Marie Lipinski, the Tribune's editor at the time of the merger, and Bill Pate, a lawyer who helped orchestrate the deal in which Sam Zell took over Tribune Company in 2007.?

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