Fitz Falls; Tribune Censors Reader Comments
Dennis Fitzsimmons, the Tribune Company CEO who will be best remembered for wearing a business suit to a baseball rally, was shitcanned today by new Tribune boss Sam Zell, a partner with Jerry Reinsdorf in the Chicago White Sox and Chicago Bulls.
In a final act characteristic of the respect the Chicago Tribune has shown to the First Amendment during the Fitzsimmons era, the Tribune removed public reactions to Fitzsimmons' firing from the forum attached to the online edition of the Tribune story. Instead comments like these now appear:
In a final act characteristic of the respect the Chicago Tribune has shown to the First Amendment during the Fitzsimmons era, the Tribune removed public reactions to Fitzsimmons' firing from the forum attached to the online edition of the Tribune story. Instead comments like these now appear:
What happened to all of the other comments?Ah, Fitzy, we're really going to miss you here at the Cubune Watch, for our job will never be this easy again.
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Really...what DID happen to all of the previous comments? This happens in other strings as well and this very question of what happened goes unanswered. No wonder the Trib is in trouble.
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