Posted AT 1:48 AM EDT on 05/04/08
‘I'm your Viagra, okay?’
NEW YORK — Sam Zell, like any good newspaperman, has a deft way with words, although occasionally his
bon mots can veer toward the infelicitous.
Consider a few outtakes from the recent Sam Zell road show, a cross-country tour in which he has shared his unorthodox vision with thousands of employees of Tribune Co., the media conglomerate he acquired in an audacious, and some would say irrational, $8.2-billion (U.S.) deal late last year.
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