{"id":11192,"date":"2012-10-18T16:49:41","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T23:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=11192"},"modified":"2012-10-18T16:57:51","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T23:57:51","slug":"papa-doug-going-after-tribune-co","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=11192","title":{"rendered":"Papa Doug Going After Tribune Co."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/manchester_t250.png\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/manchester_t250.png','popup','width=151,height=150,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/manchester_t250-tm.jpg\" height=\"100\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Manchester T250\" \/><\/a><strong>Doug Manchester<\/strong>, the owner of the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.utsandiego.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">U-T San Diego<\/a><\/em><\/strong><em> <\/em>(and the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nctimes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">North County Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong>) is now officially going after the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tribune.com\" target=\"_blank\">Tribune Company<\/a><\/strong>, according to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kpbs.org\/news\/2012\/oct\/18\/ut-san-diego-owner-doug-manchester-shows-interest-\/\" target=\"_blank\">KPBS.com<\/a><\/strong>. The Tribune Company owns <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Chicago Tribune<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Baltimore Sun<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hartfordcourant.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Hartford Courant<\/a><\/em><\/strong> and more importantly, the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">LA Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We certainly are going to look at it,&#8221; Manchester said. &#8220;We are looking at it, yes. I would like to, yes.&#8221; . . Tribune spokesman <strong>Gary Weitman<\/strong> refused to comment on what he called speculation regarding the company and its assets. The Tribune&#8217;s owners are two hedge funds and JP Morgan Chase. U-T CEO <strong>John Lynch<\/strong> said recently that the paper&#8217;s ownership was interested in acquiring a company that would give it a national footprint. . . &#8220;We believe our business model will work and create great economic benefit to all of the investors,&#8221; Lynch said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Media companies are cheap right now. For businessmen with another stream of revenue and the desire to give themselves good press, owning newspapers apparently makes sense.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kpbs.org\/news\/2012\/oct\/18\/ut-san-diego-owner-doug-manchester-shows-interest-\/?utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_medium=social-media&amp;utm_campaign=kpbsnews-twitter&amp;utm_term=kpbs-evening\" target=\"_blank\">KPBS<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doug Manchester, the owner of the U-T San Diego (and the North County Times) is now officially going after the Tribune Company, according to a story on KPBS.com. The Tribune Company owns The Chicago Tribune, The Baltimore Sun, The Hartford Courant and more importantly, the LA Times. &#8220;We certainly are going to look at it,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,17,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11192"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11192"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11196,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11192\/revisions\/11196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}