Blithe Spirit, the Blog

So what do you think, Chicago Newspaper readers?  Would you like Sun-Times and Trib exchanging front pages on the day before publication, as NY Times and Wash Post have been doing (secretly) for 10 years?  Editor & Publisher has the story.  Something in the back of my 73–year-old mind with 63 years-plus newspaper-reading experience tells me that you would not, but rather that it’s scandalous that it happened.  What think you?

Later: Reader Bill asks whatever happened to the scoop concept?  To which I noted that the Editor & P story discussed it amazingly as reflecting long-time “rivalry” between NYT and Wash Post, but it’s a price-fixing story in my book.

So what do you think, Chicago Newspaper readers?  Would you like Sun-Times and Trib exchanging front pages on the day before publication, as NY Times and Wash Post have been doing (secretly) for 10 years?  Editor & Publisher has the story.  Something in the back of my 73–year-old mind with 63 years-plus newspaper-reading experience tells me that you would not, but rather that it’s scandalous that it happened.  What think you?

Later: Reader Bill asks whatever happened to the scoop concept?  To which I noted that the Editor & P story discussed it amazingly as reflecting long-time “rivalry” between NYT and Wash Post, but it’s a price-fixing story in my book.

“I’m glad you resurrected that albatross plan of Lisa re going after abortion counsellors who suggest alternatives to pregnant clients. She hasn’t done it YET, but why? Not change of heart — afraid of George?” asks astute and informed reader D., meaning Cardinal George, implying that he would go after HER if she went after THEM.  Hmmmmm, as my editor correspondent C. would say.

“I’m glad you resurrected that albatross plan of Lisa re going after abortion counsellors who suggest alternatives to pregnant clients. She hasn’t done it YET, but why? Not change of heart — afraid of George?” asks astute and informed reader D., meaning Cardinal George, implying that he would go after HER if she went after THEM.  Hmmmmm, as my editor correspondent C. would say.