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When Barnes & Noble announced it was looking for a buyer, we entertained the fanciful notion that struggling rival Borders might put in a bid. As absurd as the idea was, that buyout offer has been made. Here's why it has virtually no chance of succeeding.

Tribune Co. creditors are suing for billions of dollars in damages, alleging Tribune Chairman Sam Zell and lender JPMorgan Chase pushed the company into bankruptcy when Zell purchased it mainly with debt in 2007.

Tribune CEO Randy Michaels is expected to resign after The New York Times reported he has fostered a sexist "frat house" culture at the news company. Employees said he encouraged sexual innuendo, profanity, poker parties and other bawdy behavior, according to the story.

So much for the hope of a relatively quick and painless exit from bankruptcy for Tribune Co. A reorganization plan that would have turned over control of the Chicago-based media conglomerate to lenders has reportedly fallen apart.

How much quality content can a penny buy? I trolled Demand Media's eHow.com to answer that question. Here's my collection of the dumbest articles published by the company, which recently filed for an IPO.

Tribune Co.'s Chief Executive Randy Michaels has some interesting ideas on how to remake the 163-year-old news company, including television news without anchors. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Michaels is said to be "rethinking" Tribune's business interests, including "reducing...

Sorry, Tribune Co. employees. After everything you've been through in the past two years, you won't get to witness the one thing that might, in some small way, make up for it -- the spectacle of Sam Zell getting fired as CEO. He removed himself from the post, and he's staying on as chairman.

When an $8-billion company goes bankrupt, it's tempting to find someone to blame -- and all the more so when that company is headed by someone as rude, crass and personally unappealing as Sam Zell. Now the foundering media conglomerate's bondholders are targeting Zell, along with the investment...

As the Tribune Co. looks to sell its Chicago Cubs baseball team, with the Ricketts family looking like the most likely buyer, the company is reportedly considering putting the team into bankruptcy to speed up the process. A Chicago Cubs bankruptcy would make it the first team to file since the...

"Tribune Co. employee claims sexual harassment": As shocking headlines go, that's right up there with "Dog bites man." What else do you expect at a company that make lewd jokes about a female executive in a press release? Shelly Sindland, a political reporter for WTIC-TV (a.k.a. Fox 61) in...