I’m well aware that it’s declassé to publicly draw knives on management, and that a show of disloyalty can make it hard to find a new job when your ride’s here, and I’m sympathetic to people who err on the side of caution (on the side of being able to feed yourself, specifically). But the third factor in TribCo’s recent cutbacks, the truly epic amounts of debt Sam Zell took out on the backs of the employee “owners” – which Zell himself has admitted, if dickishly and halfheartedly, was a mistake – seems so obvious here as to not only warrant mentioning but to be entirely safe to do so.
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NB: The only specific name I’ve heard is art critic Alan Artner [not confirmed; see Miner and Crain’s for updated lists], via the Twitter feed of Emily Nunn, herself a victim of cutbacks not too long ago. She rebounded quickly with a blog, Cook the Wolf, and I hope her colleagues do the same, at least until we in the journalism community get some stuff figured out.
