Well guess what y’all, I work at the Chicago Tribune TV station that Sinclair wants to buy. I’ve worked here for 33 years so I can probably hold out ‘til retirement if it’s not too bad. The thing is, this station has been an institution in the Chicagoland area for 70 years. We focus heavily on local stuff, we’re the TV home of the Cubs, Sox, Bulls and Blackhawks. I just don’t see them f*cking with us too much because our viewers (and probably advertisers) will go berserk. This is a very democratic city & state and they’d be slitting their own throats if the ratings start dropping. I think that not only would the ratings drop, the Chicago print media would blast them (they’ve already been doing that quite a bit over the last year) because nobody wants this station to change. With all the publicity lately, now everyone will know who’s to blame. Also, this is a strong union city/state and most of Sinclair’s stations have been in right-to work or weak union states. The last person who bought us, Sam Zell, damn near ruined us. In the fine tradition of a Mitt Romney, he took the company private, loaded on $9 billion of debt and forced us into bankruptcy. All of this is to say, who the f*ck knows what’s going to happen, we’ve all been on edge for over a year now, and the best we can hope for, is that this sale doesn’t go through. Thanks for reading/listening!!!!