I look forward to a new owner and manager for the Salt Lake Tribune. The managers at the Tribune have been running around town with a chip on their shoulders, and it is about time someone knocked it off. They sold the company five years ago and reaped a $700 million tax-free benefit and then have run the company in the ground. Obviously, TCI was not thinking when it allowed the McCartheys to continue to run the paper.
It is like giving the fox the management controls of the hen house. They had no incentive to grow the equity or worth of the company, knowing that in five years they had the opportunity to buy the paper back.
I am happy the judge saw through the charade the Tribune managers were parading through the court system that the editorial voice was being compromised. What did they think five years ago when they sold the paper?
From the reports of Mr. Singleton, he sounds like a fair and upstanding newspaper manager. I see the Tribune becoming a more respectable paper and through the JOA allowing the Deseret News to move to morning delivery.
I hope the current employees at the Tribune open their arms and welcome the MediaNews group as their owners and now managers.
Michael Mason
Taylorsville