Sam Zell, Tribune Media Co.
Although he stands at a mere 5’ 5” tall, the billionaire real estate investor has been called a “Human Wrecking Ball.” In 2007, when he bought Tribune Media Co., which owns newspapers such as the Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times, his first order of business was to visit newsrooms across the country and deliver obscenity-laced warnings to staff that they needed to change their coverage to what people – not journalists – want to read. Confronted by a reporter unhappy with the shift, he chastised her as “arrogant” and ended by telling her to “F**k off.”
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