General Francisco Franco is still dead and Gannett still wants to buy the former Tribune Publishing – now known as “tronc” – in case you were wondering.
We’ve been keeping a sharp eye on the situation for weeks and we can reliably report there have been no new public developments in the effort by Gannett to purchase the parent company of the Hartford Courant.
We do note that many writers cannot help but refer to tronc as; “the company formerly known as Tribune Publishing.”