It took almost a year, but after a newsroom tour in which he cussed out a member of his staff, dropped a few F-bombs, made some off-color porn jokes, and called a Tribune exec an overpaid motherfucker, Sam Zell is finally beginning to settle in as owner of Tribune Company. Zell made headlines on Tuesday when he told an Orlando Sentinel photographer “Fuck you” in response to a question about how Tribune Co. would avoid slipping into writing about “puppy dogs” and continue to “inform the community.” [See video below.] But in Los Angeles yesterday, he cleared the air and explained his actions. As LA Observed put it:

Zell explained his f-bomb directed at an employee in Orlando — she dissed him as he saw it — and said her job is safe if she is competent. There were the usual Zell share of expletives, and I’m told he drew groans in the audience with a (probably inadvertent) remark that he thought of holding a meeting about getting in the porn biz but figured no one would “come.”

Nice. In other news, Zell admonished previous owners for being “fucking limp-dick” with the CW TV network. Why don’t you tell us what you really think, Sam?