The newsonomics of Tribune’s detour

[Commentary] Was the announced Tribune split into broadcast and newspaper companies a way to avoid the Koch brothers, a way to harvest tax savings, or something else? The big question is why Tribune would go through the time, money, and bother to split the companies when it doesn’t want to be in the newspaper business and has would-be buyers waiting for company data. First, expect that the papers will still be sold. They may go as a whole of individually, but they’ll go, and they may go before a spin-off is spun.