Media Today in the Slow Death of Newspapers
posted by on June 25 at 14:08 PM
The LA Times reports that its own building is for sale:
Tribune Co. is putting two of its most historic properties—the Los Angeles Times headquarters downtown and Tribune Tower in Chicago—on the block.
Tribune CEO Sam Zell says the company seeks to ‘maximize the value’ of The Times’ headquarters in downtown Los Angeles as well as Chicago’s Tribune Tower. He seeks options to maintain ‘some level of occupancy’ in the buildings.
I like the Times headquarters, which always make me think of a loaf of bread wearing a suit of armor:
But I adore the Tribune building in Chicago:
I love the Trib building for its crazy, totally unnecessary flying buttresses…
… and how its outside is festooned with rocks that reporters brought back from their travels, per the demands of Colonel McCormick, the Trib’s crazy owner:
It’s not like anybody wants to tear down these lovely, bizarre buildings, but still—it seems like poor, grown-up siblings having to sell off their childhood home.
your last line on that is lovely
The Tribune Tower in Chicago is my favorite building ever. I believe there is a chunk of Mt. Rainier in the wall somewhere if memory serves...
I love the Tribune Tower too! The rocks are completely fascinating (and when will you ever hear that sentence outside of a geology convention).
I'm going to see the Tribune Tower this weekend! Wheeeee.
I was sad when the Sun Times bldg got demolished. I mean, sure, it was a garish ugly big boat of a bldg (literally, it was designed to look like a boat.) But I still loved it.
The Trib Tower and the Wrigley Building make an arresting duo there at the river, no?
If you can, go inside one of the lobbies off Michigan Ave, (I don't remember which.) They have old quotes and headlines inlayed on the marble walls. Not as cool as the rocks outside, but still interesting.
Except Sam Zell is far from poor and no one made him buy those newspapers in the first place.
! I went to Chicago for a school trip in eighth grade, and I remember seeing a chunk of Mt. St. Helens pumice in the wall of some random building, and thinking it was a fun coincidence, because we were about to move here from Lexington, Kentucky....only today, a dozen years later, do I discover that that was the Tribune building. Hell, at the age of 13, I couldn't have cared less about architecture; we were trying to find the new Virgin Megastore.
That includes the Stranger. I'm sure you know this already. How was that last raise?
@10. I'm not gloating, you anonymous—read: cowardly—jackass. I'm commiserating. Back off.
"Back off"? Never. I kinda hit a nerve there with the raise thing, didn't I? Sucks to be you.
Maybe they should rent out spaces to independently wealthy bloggers who think they're journalists.
Ah Trib Tower; I walk by the cathedral of commerce every day. It'll probably become a Chipotle.
@12. The only nerve you hit was the one frayed by cowards sniping behind pseudonyms. Think you're a tough guy? Give me a call: 206-323-7101.
I'll give you a jingle tomorrow around 2, Brandon.
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