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Re:Chicago Sun Times Files For Bankruptcy by tptacek on Tuesday March 31, 2009 @02:41PM (#540556)
The Chron is about to go under; Seattle is losing a daily; the NYT may run out of operating cash in May. Is there a trend story out there about the newspapers that would be Hacker News? Sure. But this kind of isn't it.

(I'm more worried about where Jim DeRogatis is going to land than about Ebert, who can obviously just retire now).

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Re:Chicago Sun Times Files For Bankruptcy by unalone on Tuesday March 31, 2009 @02:48PM (#540571)
(But it's not about his well-being. It's that I don't want him to lose his blog or to stop reviewing. He's such a tremendous writer.)
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Re:Chicago Sun Times Files For Bankruptcy by Xichekolas on Tuesday March 31, 2009 @05:24PM (#540865)
Ebert has the kind of fame that can outlive his company's downfall. He'll just take over his domain name and keep reviewing, and his content will probably continue to be syndicated nationwide.

In fact, he might end up making more since he won't have to give the Sun-Times it's share.

Just because a company goes under doesn't mean it takes all it's assets with it. The good bits will be bought by someone.

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