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Home » Lee Abrams

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Posted inBlogs

We Are Told That Certain Tribune Malcontents Find This Funny

by Michael Miner October 26, 2010August 19, 2021

Amusing comment on recent troubles at the Chicago Tribune? You be the judge

Posted inBlogs

Out of Elba, Conrad Black Knows What Ails the Media

by Michael Miner October 21, 2010August 19, 2021

If you’re an ailing newspaper, Conrad Black might be your man

Posted inNews & Politics

It Didn’t Start With Sam

by Michael Miner October 21, 2010August 19, 2021

The story of the Tribune Company’s decline is more nuanced than what you read in the New York Times.

Posted inBlogs

The Rest Is Noise

by Whet Moser October 19, 2010August 19, 2021

For the radio vets at TribCo, it’s all about the noise.

Posted inBlogs

Gerould Kern: Still There

by Michael Miner October 19, 2010August 19, 2021

Thoughts on Tribune editor Gerould Kern, as the frat rats he worked for exit.

Posted inBlogs

Introducing Chicago’s Newest Women’s Publication, the Tribune

by Lauri Apple October 15, 2010August 19, 2021

The Trib discovers its feminine side.

Posted inBlogs

One Word Too Far

by Whet Moser October 15, 2010August 19, 2021

The Tribune’s Chief Innovation Officer resigns.

Posted inBlogs

Randy Michaels’s 119 Verboten Words, +1

by Lauri Apple October 14, 2010August 19, 2021

Maybe Trib CEO Randy Michaels’ list of forbidden words for WGN wasn’t long enough.

Posted inBlogs

Sacrificing Lee Abrams

by Michael Miner October 13, 2010August 19, 2021

Lee Abrams gives Randy Michaels the gift of moral indignation.

Posted inBlogs

Boobs

by Whet Moser October 13, 2010August 19, 2021

The truth about Lee Abrams’s briefly notorious memo is either more or less interesting than presented, depending on what interests you.

Posted inBlogs

Someone’s Always Trying to Tell Them / Something They Already Know / So Their Anger and Resentment Flow

by Whet Moser October 6, 2010August 19, 2021

The NYT publishes a bombshell about the Tribune Company, but very little of it should come as a surprise.

Posted inBlogs

I do have a cable access show, and I still know how to party

by Whet Moser October 28, 2009August 19, 2021

Lee Abrams is the new Svengoolie (via).

Posted inBlogs

Dilbert at the Trib

by Michael Miner January 27, 2009August 19, 2021

A new Chicago Tribune memo telling staffers how to behave might have impressed a kindergarten class.

Posted inBlogs

The wind calls out Mariah

by Michael Miner January 26, 2009August 19, 2021

The Tribune Company’s Lee Abrams trashes celebrities using a quote misattributed to Mariah Carey.

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Memomeister Lee Abrams on the new Tribune

by Michael Miner September 29, 2008August 19, 2021

Lee Abrams hails the redesigned Chicago Tribune

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