As the Chandlers' letter witheringly points out, the Tribune Company consistently lags behind its media peers in the kind of things that investors find important: its share price, its revenues and its profits.

ECONOMIST: Newspapers

The broadsheets, meanwhile, would be witheringly snooty.

BBC: The first bloke

It is witheringly slow, relentless and massive.

MSN: Flood frontline gets some good news about crest