Chicago-based billionaire and Tribune Co. honcho Sam Zell doesn’t take too kindly to uppity ink-stained wretches reminding him about what’s important in the newspaper business besides the bottom line. Here, an Orlando Sentinel journo grapples with him in a lively exchange that ends with Zell letting fly with an F-bomb.

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