What Happened to Chicago's 'Newsprint Curtain'?
Martha Rosenberg, staff cartoonist for the Evanston Roundtable in Evanston, Illinois, home of Northwestern University, makes timely observations about the state of newspapers in Chicago in a January 27, 1008, post at OpEd News.com headlined "Once Colored by Mike Royko, Chicago Newspapers Now Shaped by Money Men Zell and Black."
Rosenberg takes a stroll down memory lane and looks at the present. Reading her post took me back 35-years to when Chicago was a feisty and competitive newspaper town. With the Chicago Sun-Times seemingly on the ropes, it could become a one major daily newspaper town, at least for awhile. The Chicago Tribune would be last major daily standing if the Sun-Times bites the dust.
Frankly, we have some nice alternative publication in the city that cumulatively do a good job of covering the city. I like the The Beachwood Reporter, the Chicago Reader, Chi-Town Daily News, Chicago Defender, an African-American daily, to name four.
Of course there are numerous blogs in Chicago on varied subjects and many neighborhoods have weekly newspapers.
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