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      <![CDATA[Sorry to be so late, but my impression is that the problem is not the fault of the higher-ups at the paper, it is the fault of the schizoid nature of liberal America. There's no need to speculate: Mike Cooke surely was endeavoring to soften a too-progressive endorsement into one that would be more palatable to, oh, 100,000 or so readers.
    
    We on the left may think that that is a crime, but they must do something to serve that readership. The solution, for a paper that proposes to be relevant to all of these diverse groups, may be simpler than you think. It involves some restructuring of the section to bifurcate opinions by the editorial board when it is split -- much like Supreme Court dissenting opinions, but briefer. When you explain these divisions to all readers, it enriches them and helps to validate their own nuances of opinion.
    
    The solution also may involve rapid-response polling of readership through e-mail and texting, so that the editorial board does not work in a vacuum. That obviously would have built-in fringe benefits, as connecting the print and cyber realm often do in journalism.
        
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      <![CDATA[Maybe they'll resurrect Mark Hornung and just have him run someone else's editorials again?
    
    Just sayin'.
        
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      <![CDATA[kdollarsign, you can rap with harold at harolddaily.blogspot.com. He's also got a genealogy blog: midwesternmicrohistory.blogspot.com.
        
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      <![CDATA[agree with ann, thank god for this blog. too bad I can't rap with harold anymore, as well. anyway, I'm not enmeshed in the paper's politics, but it seems the editorial endorsement would generally be subject to peer review.
        
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      <![CDATA[Did anyone watch Cyrus Friedheim on Chicago Tonight last night?
    
    He seemed flustered when questioned about the reports of staff being escorted from their desks ("we had a party right before!" he threw in, to soften, and re-direct the inquiry), and when asked about what exactly were the changes/re-writes to the endorsment, he responded: 
    
    "Some tone, some wording, some details, that's all."
    
    yep, that's all, folks.
        
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      <![CDATA[I haven't read the original drafts of the endorsement editorials in question, but perhaps they suffered -- as writing tends to do -- from the committee process Reed's memo alludes to. The Obama endorsement in particular must have been of great importance to the editors -- a milestone in the assignment Reed took on to return the paper to its progressive roots -- and if the editor didn't think the language was equal to the occasion, he had every right to change it. Why Cooke didn't change it in collaboration with Reed I do not know.
        
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      <![CDATA[I read a news story about the resignation and immediately came here to see what your observations were because I knew they would shed some additional light on the issue, as indeed they did.
     It made me realize how fortunate we are to have you covering the Chicago media scene.  Thank you.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Bye now!]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[This unfortunate drama has much less to do with the Sun-Times&acirc;&#128;&#153; real and perceived problems than it has to do with a conflict between two pig-headed individuals used to getting their way by pushing people around. Cheryl Reed and Michael Cooke.
    Reed didn&acirc;&#128;&#153;t so much lose half her staff to layoffs as she used the layoff opportunity to push three well-respected journalists out the door because their competence threatened her self-coronation as Queen Bee.
    Cooke and Cyrus Freidheim elevated and empowered a wholly unpleasant person, and now they act surprised that she has chosen to act unpleasantly.
    The departure of Ms. Reed and her outlandish ego should be viewed as good news.
        
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      <![CDATA[Cheryl Reed was mediocrity embodied.  Maybe worse.  The Sun Times editorials haven't been worth reading since Neil Steinberg was banished from the Board.
    
    Hopefully, her "principled" stand (read: transparent cry for the Tribune to hire her) won't send her into a Carol Marin-like exalted orbit.
        
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      <![CDATA[The worst of it was that the Obama endorsement was dull and gave no real solid reasons why anyone should vote for the guy. It put me to sleep from the first sentence. I've read college newspaper editorials in the past month that have given better arguments for supporting Obama. It sucks that management stuck their hands in the editorials, but it sucks more that they still couldn't revive a flaccid editorial. 
    
    It's terrible what has happened here and a continuing embarrassment to the once Bright One, but the supposedly progressive editorial page (what i'd really like to know is who was the genius who has given chriostopher hitchens the space he's gotten?)  has no teeth and its editorials seem juvenile sometimes and uninformed most other times. Maybe this change will be one for the better.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[so-called "Austin Mayor"]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[MM,
    
    Every time I think that the S-T has reached rock bottom, their brain-wizards find a new way to dig a deeper hole for the paper.
    
    Trying to save a newspaper by cutting newsroom staff and undermining the editorial board is like trying to save you marriage by finding just the right woman to have an affair with.
    
    -- SCAM
        
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      <![CDATA[Would Ms. Reed mind posting her original  editorial and let us be the judge of what Mr. Freidheim feels was missing from it?
        
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      <![CDATA[OK but what were the changes?
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Teresa]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Where will it end?
        
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          Posted by Teresa]]>
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