Chi Reader’s Michael Miner on absence of Sun-Times sports writer Jay Mariotti from the Sox locker room while writing about ballplayers: [W]itness is journalisms irreducible core. And sportswriters are the most old-fashioned of journalists and athletes the most old-fashioned of other people. Clubhouses are where jocks and scribes circle and sniff each other. Mariotti boasts [...]
Monthly Archives: June 2006
Being there
Chi Reader’s Michael Miner on absence of Sun-Times sports writer Jay Mariotti from the Sox locker room while writing about ballplayers: [W]itness is journalisms irreducible core. And sportswriters are the most old-fashioned of journalists and athletes the most old-fashioned of other people. Clubhouses are where jocks and scribes circle and sniff each other. Mariotti boasts [...]
The fourth purveyor of classified stuff
Is it not curious that three newspapers are mentioned as running the SWIFT (not swift boat) story about how we track Al Quaeda finances — NYTimes, LATimes, Wall St. Journal — but not Chi Trib, which had it page-one same day as its sister paper, LATimes? Trib ran the LAT story, yes, filling its role [...]
The fourth purveyor of classified stuff
Is it not curious that three newspapers are mentioned as running the SWIFT (not swift boat) story about how we track Al Quaeda finances — NYTimes, LATimes, Wall St. Journal — but not Chi Trib, which had it page-one same day as its sister paper, LATimes? Trib ran the LAT story, yes, filling its role [...]
Tale of two headlines
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette columnist Ron Cook’s column about Ozzie Guillen using “unconscionable term” — “fag,” which Cook does not use — had this headline in Pittsburgh yesterday: Cook: It’s appalling Guillen will be at PNC Park But this in Chicago today (Sun-Times): Baseball needs to learn to deal with criticism The latter is about as weak [...]
Ozzie by Slezak
Asked last year if she was offended by White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen’s cuss words, Sun-Times columnist Carol Slezak said no. Nor had she ever seen him acting badly toward women writers, she said on another occasion, again in response to a male writer’s question. I could have added that Guillen is one of the [...]
Tale of two headlines
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette columnist Ron Cook’s column about Ozzie Guillen using “unconscionable term” — “fag,” which Cook does not use — had this headline in Pittsburgh yesterday: Cook: It’s appalling Guillen will be at PNC Park But this in Chicago today (Sun-Times): Baseball needs to learn to deal with criticism The latter is about as weak [...]
Ozzie by Slezak
Asked last year if she was offended by White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen’s cuss words, Sun-Times columnist Carol Slezak said no. Nor had she ever seen him acting badly toward women writers, she said on another occasion, again in response to a male writer’s question. I could have added that Guillen is one of the [...]
Dixie chickens
Chi Trib media writer Steve Johnson oddly accuses Dixie Chicks fans of hypocrisy for not buying their records because the Chicks have embraced leftist views. “Hypocrisy” is one of those words that cut deep. It’s as if he was pretty mad and searched for what we have come to call a “hurtful” adjective. For instance, “fag” as applied [...]
Dixie chickens
Chi Trib media writer Steve Johnson oddly accuses Dixie Chicks fans of hypocrisy for not buying their records because the Chicks have embraced leftist views. “Hypocrisy” is one of those words that cut deep. It’s as if he was pretty mad and searched for what we have come to call a “hurtful” adjective. For instance, “fag” as applied [...]
