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June 21, 2004
''Penguins! Give me more penguins!"
Funny column (by Roger Ebert, of all people) on how not to do a media acquisition. His Chicago Sun-Times has been at the wrong end of a number of such transactions in recent years:"We survived [Rupert] Murdoch. We even liked the editors he sent us, especially Frank Devine, an Australian who stalked through the city room bellowing, ''Penguins! Give me more penguins!''








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