How Moguls and Wall Street Plundered Great American Newspapers

The Leonard Lopate Show | Oct 4, 2011

In 2000, after the Tribune Company acquired Times Mirror Corporation, it became the most powerful collection of newspapers in the world. Veteran Tribune and Los Angeles Times editor James O'Shea looks at how the Tribune ended up diving into bankruptcy and public scandal. His book The Deal From Hell chronicles how news industry executives and editors made a series of flawed decisions that drove the newspapers to the brink of extinction.

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