One clue comes from George Orwell, whose wartime Tribune (nyse: TRB - news - people ) columns I read during the holiday break.

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It's one of the few family newspaper outfits, along with Tribune (nyse: TRB - news - people ), that has a single class of shares.

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He concedes there are pieces of the Tribune Co. (nyse: TRB - news - people ) he'd like to own, more likely Newsday than the Los Angeles Times--at a fire sale price, of course.

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Wall Street analysts were doubtful that Wednesday's drop-dead date for interested suitors of media giant Tribune Co. (nyse: TRB - news - people ) would result in any premium bids for the company, if it's sold at all.

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It starts with after-school educational centers called Score, moves to the core test-prep business, on to Concord University School of Law, the nation's first online law school, and right up through BrassRing, a career development service Kaplan formed with Accel Partners and the Tribune (TRB) Co. last year.

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"Most of the Academy members are older, and I don't know how many of them are actually Web-savvy, which is why I think print will continue to play a really important role, " says Lynne Segall, vice president of entertainment advertising at the Tribune (nyse: TRB - news - people )-owned Los Angeles Times.

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Three days after a Jan. 28, 2006 Chicago Tribune (nyse: TRB - news - people ) article discussing the potential dangers of portable music players, Seattle class action lawyers Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro lobbed a lawsuit at Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) on behalf of everybody who purchased an iPod in the preceding four years.

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