It’s hard to believe the newspaper industry couldn’t foresee the demand for Wednesday’s historic keepsake editions – the first since 9/11 – but then the industry hasn’t foreseen much very well in recent years. Lines of people looking for copies of the Times and Post formed in New York and Washington, D.C., but the real stunner was that right here in Chicago neither the Tribune nor the Sun-Times published enough copies to meet demand. If either of them had properly thought ahead, they not only would have predicted the demand but stoked and exploited it with a marketing campaign.
At any rate, here’s the press release the Tribune Company put out on Wednesday as it played catch-up.
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