In 20+ years at the Trib, I’ve watched the hubris and greed of multiple generations of ownership make bad decisions without consequences and then line their pockets with the money our credibility earned them as they walked away from the wreckage. 1/ chicagotribune.com/business/ct-bi… First, we had the North Shore crowd who ran a near monopoly that printed money. They ignored newsroom innovators who told them about a thing called the internet, instead recklessly bought an even bigger newspaper co.—Times/Mirror—with a culture completely different from ours. 2/