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osewalrusI just spent a delightful 30 minutes reading the complaint in Tribune's lawsuit against Sinclair over their failed deal.
Basically, the actual explanation turned out to be true. Sinclair were arrogant pricks who systemically pissed off everybody, including their merger partner Tribune. David Smith, the CEO, was a greedy jerkwad who tried to get all clever despite repeated warnings by everyone that they could totally tell he was lying about his corporate relationships.
It wasn't some deep laid plan by Rupert Murdoch. It wasn't some amazing complex combination of House of Cards and Game of Thrones. It was exactly what everyone had been hearing as going on behind the scenes for months and -- if anything -- was even more prosaic and stupid greedy than expected.
Unless we want to stipulate that Tribune is lying in its billion dollar lawsuit against Sinclair for some horribly convoluted reason involving the aliens from X-Files and the Society of the Blind Eye from Gravity Falls.
Basically, the actual explanation turned out to be true. Sinclair were arrogant pricks who systemically pissed off everybody, including their merger partner Tribune. David Smith, the CEO, was a greedy jerkwad who tried to get all clever despite repeated warnings by everyone that they could totally tell he was lying about his corporate relationships.
It wasn't some deep laid plan by Rupert Murdoch. It wasn't some amazing complex combination of House of Cards and Game of Thrones. It was exactly what everyone had been hearing as going on behind the scenes for months and -- if anything -- was even more prosaic and stupid greedy than expected.
Unless we want to stipulate that Tribune is lying in its billion dollar lawsuit against Sinclair for some horribly convoluted reason involving the aliens from X-Files and the Society of the Blind Eye from Gravity Falls.
