Abrams: Intellect May Be 'Commercially Viable'  It's another
year -- and another rambling think piece from Tribune Chief
Innovation Officer Lee Abrams. And he seems to have reached
a turning point. Abrams says truth, integrity, and intelligence
... might actually be profitable. "Junk Culture or Junk Food
media does sell, but I'm sensing a trend where intellect is
commercially viable," Abrams writes.   A newspaper with
intellect? Is the world ready?  Abrams opines that massive
change is coming and the "tired 1980s style of media" is dying.
He hits his usual themes about having soul and being cool and
anti-corporate, pointing to corporations like Apple and
Southwest Airlines as examples to follow.  "The public
matters...and they ain't buying 'corporate' anymore," Abrams
writes. "The 80' was fashionable. Wall Street was cool. Now,
main street is cool again."  Abrams also makes this observation:
"Any study on the dissatisfaction with the status quo, pretty
much point to a desire for change."  Ya think?  The piece