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Columbia Journalism Review rounds up the day's media hijinks, creative and not. The rating for Tribune's fake press release: "pretty lame." Really, should a bankrupt, flailing company be reminding people that it is run by a bunch of refugees from the comedy desert of radio?
Sam Zell
Rating the April Fool's gags
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Times employees' suit over Zell deal officially wrapped
Tribune has paid $231 million in bankruptcy fees so far