So apparently the Chicago Reader is being shopped around again: Chicago Reader up for sale: Report
The transition to Creative Loafing seemed to go all right a few years back, so that’s somewhat reassuring here & now. It’s probably too early to say anything for sure, but are there any rumblings about how/whether the SDMB will be affected by another change of ownership? Come to think of it, are the boards financially self-sufficient these days?
I saw that too 
I’ll give you $40 for it.
But then you’ll just turn it into a clone of your board. Nobody wants that.
Well, nice knowing you all!
Don’t panic yet.
(You’ll have plenty of time to panic later.)
When we get more info we’ll let you know – right now you all have as much information as we do.
I bid $45.
$50, a dead rat and a pack of Necco wafers.
$50, two dead rats, and if I take over, we can say “fuck you” in the Pit again.
Regards,
Shodan
I’m out.
Will they take my check?
I bid $300 billion dollars.
Yea!!! I win!!!
Zimbabwe dollars are cool - right? 
This quote from the linked article got my attention: “At the time of the redesign, Reader editor Mara Shalhoup told the Tribune that the goal was to make the Reader less insular, moving away from a tone she described as ‘the smartest-kids-in-the-room kind of lecturing everyone else.’”
So maybe they’d be happier if we dumbed it down a little…
Wow. Way to totally miss the point. I think that the emphasis is on lecture, not smart. It’s not the content, it’s the tone.
*Au contraire *(that means “on the contrary” for those of you who aren’t the smartest kids in the room.) They can dumb down the Reader for the chattering classes, while leaving the Board alone for its current, self-selected audience of know-it-alls, psuedo-intellectuals and blowhards. That widens their potential reach.
It’s a win-win. Really.
This is the best thing I’ve ever seen.
I resemble that remark.
That should have been suedo iltellectuals.
I look good in suede damn it!
A suede speedo - not so much.
“sudo intellectual” makes your Unix system smarter, despite any permissions that may have been set to keep it dumb.