[EC Washington]

So the far Left American Hating Chicago Tribune is going out of business? Good.
One of the Editors, Clarance Page is a coat holder for Obama. Page and the Tribune has not only been extreme far lef,t they are outright anti-American. The Tribune Staff deserves everything they get.

[Bonemaker]

"The Tribune Staff deserves everything they get."

Except for John Kass and Kristen McQueary.

[logician2u]

The Trib has come a long way--in the wrong direction--since its glory days under McCormick ownership.

But newspapers are dying all over the country, and for good as well as bad reasons. We here on Free Republic can blame it on their politics and be right some of the time.

In the real world, hardly anyone outside the news business and politicians even cares about what the Tribune and the NY Times and their brethren say in their editorial pages. (It's a given that reporters and most editors are inclined to the left, so who is setting the example?)

Newspapers' influence on elections is diminishing with every passing year. Can you name just a few papers whose editors endorsed Trump in 2018? And that doesn't include the Chicago Tribune, which as I recall favored Gary Johnson last time.

Alternative sources, of all stripes, will eventually predominate in a free market.

Our challenge is going to be keeping it free.