Read the complete story Talk about spin. Two of America’s once-iconic publishers are about to be spun. Spun off, that is, from parent companies that have fallen out of love with print and in love with moving pictures. The names of the Chicago Tribune and Time magazine may invoke the publishing golden age birthed by the Colonel McCormicks and Henry Luces, but these publishing divisions today are more than tarnished. They’ve become liabilities, weights on future enterprise,and anchors of low profitability as advertising revenues continue to be eaten away by the Googles and Facebooks of this era. Tribune Company and Time Warner will move on without their namesakes, a plaque or two in the lobby remaining behind to commemorate their illustrious histories
