Jason Calacanis, co-founder of Weblogs and a tech industry luminary, recently posted on the issue of email interviews:

A WIRED journalist pinged me for some comments on Michael Arrington and his A-list blogger status. I told the journalist to send me the questions by email and he refused.

What's interesting is what follows. Calacanis posted a BlackBerry email he sent back to the reporter:

Frankly, you need to adapt. Journalists have misquoted people for so long--and quoted them out of context that many people like to have their words on record.

I don't want someone taking half a sentence or paraphrasing me... Just too much risk.

Besides I have 10,000 people come to my blog every day--i don't need wired to talk to the tech industry.

It's been pretty big news that real estate magnate Sam Zell has won the bidding for Tribune Co., the nation's second-largest newspaper company with titles including the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times and The Baltimore Sun.

The question, of course, is what is the company's future under Zell?

Jason Calacanis, on his calacanis.com blog, has some thoughts on this -- and they're not terribly comforting if you happen to be a Tribune Co. employee. He begins with a Zell quote from a recent Washington Post story: