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- Columns & Opinion, Opinion Apr 20, 2021
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Media’s ‘utter lack of humanity’
Chicago police killed 13-year-old Adam Toledo, and some media responded by questioning Toledo’s character. Black and Brown kids deserve better.
- Columns & Opinion, On Media Jan 11, 2021
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John Kass washing his hands of responsibility for last week's riot was a bridge too far
It's time to deplatform the right-wing Tribune columnist.
- Columns & Opinion, On Media Apr 23, 2014
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Impending death is not necessarily a negative development
In getting a new liver, I consider myself fortunate in one small respect in addition to the obvious big one.
- Columns & Opinion, On Media Mar 11, 2014
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The problem with Chicagoland, according to John Kass
For once, I don't necessarily disagree.
- Columns & Opinion, On Media Feb 11, 2014
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An 'obsessive' Sun-Times reporter is vindicated by the Vanecko case—but not content
Tim Novak and his fellow newsroom crusaders brought justice to the family of David Koschman. But former Mayor Daley’s administration got off easy in the investigation into the fatal punch thrown by Daley's nephew.
- Columns & Opinion, On Media Jan 28, 2014
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A scary outbreak of "numerical illiteracy" in the press
The New York Times botches breast cancer fatality rates, misrepresents an STD "epidemic," and fails to think through a "think piece" about gifted boys vs. girls.
- Columns & Opinion, On Media Jan 14, 2014
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A unionized WBEZ begins to take shape
The aim is to protect Chicago Public Media's spirit. The challenge is to reach a consensus without splitting into factions.
- Columns & Opinion, On Media Jan 2, 2014
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Plenty of time to consider the Times
On figures that don't figure, and the advent of native ads
- Columns & Opinion, On Media Dec 17, 2013
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The world according to the Trib's Rex Huppke
Facts matter to Huppke as they do to all reporters, but only Huppke has written their obituary.
- Columns & Opinion, On Media Dec 3, 2013
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A step fast-forward for radio news?
A coming app aims to spare listeners the clutter of the news.
- Columns & Opinion, On Media Nov 19, 2013
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The undoing of a president's mystique
What would have happened to JFK if he'd been scrutinized by the media in the same way as Obama?
- Columns & Opinion, On Media Nov 5, 2013
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What really happened in Paris, Illinois?
With a pardon at stake, two wrongful convictions in a double murder case get the reverse spin.
- Columns & Opinion, On Media Oct 22, 2013
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Our ignorance of our enemies might not be bliss, but it's close enough
Akbar Ahmed's new book, The Thistle and the Drone: How America's War on Terror Became a Global War on Tribal Islam, exposes a subtlety and complexity that ought to matter more.
- Columns & Opinion, On Media Oct 9, 2013
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Marina Shifrin dances her way out of a job
But remains a member in good standing of the troupe of oddball media makers.
- Columns & Opinion, On Media Sep 24, 2013
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The press has been as hard on Obama's stance on Syria as the public
But a couple of the president's most persistent local critics have showed him unexpected love.
- Columns & Opinion, On Media Sep 10, 2013
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Is Aggrego a savior to the Pioneer Press papers—or a threat?
Depends on who you ask
- Columns & Opinion, On Media Aug 27, 2013
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New blood at an old-school newspaper
Chicago Reporter's new editor intends to carry the torch for long-form journalism while adapting to the digital age.
- Columns & Opinion, On Media Aug 14, 2013
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The highs and lows of longtime WBEZ visionary Torey Malatia
Twenty years is a long time for anyone to run anything.
- Columns & Opinion, On Media Jul 30, 2013
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Are the challenges faced by women journalists changing for the better?
Women's setbacks in the newsroom have become more like men's. That's good—and bad.
- Columns & Opinion, On Media Jul 17, 2013
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On Mohamed Morsi, Al Jazeera, and censorship
There's nothing uniquely Middle Eastern about a news medium that hears one voice much more clearly than another.
- Columns & Opinion, On Media Jun 13, 2013
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A different direction for WBEZ
One with more listener-generated content, more audience participation, and fewer paid contributors
- Columns & Opinion, On Media May 30, 2013
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A Reader columnist goes RedPlum crazy
The scourge of a pink-wrapped ad rag
- Columns & Opinion, On Media May 22, 2013
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When push comes to shove, should laid-off journalists sue?
Terminations of newspaper employees aren't what they used to be—just ask labor lawyer Sheribel Rothenberg.
- Columns & Opinion, On Media May 1, 2013
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Rick Kogan might be sentimental—just don't call him a sentimentalist
The storied Tribune columnist gets a "mea culpa" from Trib theater critic Chris Jones.
- Columns & Opinion, On Media Apr 17, 2013
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Former Reader editor delves into the hunt for more of John Wayne Gacy's dead
Alison True's johnwaynegacynews.com pushes for greater transparency in the search for more victims of the executed serial killer.