Mr. Media Interviews By Bob Andelman

TODAY’S GUEST: KAREN DUNLAP, PRESIDENT, THE POYNTER INSTITUTE FOR MEDIA STUDIES(December 2008) What a crazy, crazy world.When I invited today’s guest, Karen Dunlap, president of the Poynter Institute, to be a guest on the show today, it was ostensibly to discuss Poynter’s upcoming collection of newspaper front pages titled President Obama: Election 2009.And we’re still going to do that.But then everything got turned upside-down.Sunday night rumors of Tribune Company—owner of everything from the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Orlando Sentinel and even the Chaicago Cubs—declaring bankruptcy became reality on Monday morning.Then the august New York Times revealed it was exploring mortgaging its new headquarters tower in Manhattan to sustain itself through one of the worst newspaper advertising slumps in history.The Poynter InstituteOh, and then this morning, Alaska residents discovered they no long had the most ridiculed governor in the nation as Americans learned how allegedly and nakedly corrupt was the g