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Cops beat, pepper spray Veterans, throw American Flag to the ground. Was this an iconic moment? Chicago Board of Trade taunts 99%-ers with signs saying "We Are the ONE Percent". Ain't that America?
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Latest Complete News Updates Lollapalooza 2011 is months away, but rumors are already floating around about the lineup. Chicago's Lollapalooza Festival won't be rolling out the official 2011 lineup until April, but a credible rumor popped up today about who the Lollapalooza headliners will be.Latest Complete News Updates Lollapalooza 2011 is months away, but rumors are already... more
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Recently Complete News Updates Today Mr. Roger Ebert just saw a YouTube video that he not only gives two thumbs way up, but also thinks is deserving of an Academy Award for best short film. He's been called America's movie critic.Recently Complete News Updates Today Mr. Roger Ebert just saw a YouTube video that he... more
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Chuck Berry, 84, Collapses Onstage in Chicago However, Berry refused significant treatment and actually returned to the stage after 20 minutes.Chuck Berry had to be helped offstage last night (January 1) at a gig in Chicago after collapsing during his set.Chuck Berry, 84, Collapses Onstage in Chicago However, Berry refused significant... more
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Recently News Updates Mr Joe Cowley covers the White Sox for the Chicago Sun-Times. Mr Mayoral candidate Mr Miguel del Valle has launched a voter registration drive that will send volunteers around the city to sign up new voters.Recently News Updates Mr Joe Cowley covers the White Sox for the Chicago Sun-Times. Mr... more
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For a genuine presidential war on the press, see the one FDR waged in the 1930s.
How touchy can you get?
The White House fires a few pop-guns in the direction of Fox News Channel, and suddenly everybody from Louis Menand in The New Yorker to Michael Scherer in Time to Charles Krauthammer in the Washington Post is heralding the Obama administration's declaration of war on Rupert Murdoch's cable station.
The direct declaration came not from Barack Obama, but underlings Anita Dunn, who called Fox the communications arm of the GOP; David Axelrod, who said Fox isn't really a news station; and Rahm Emanuel, who invoked the president's views to say, "It's not a news organization so much as it has a perspective." The closest His Obamaness has come to criticizing Fox on the record was in June, when he complained of "one television station that is entirely devoted to attacking my administration."
o get a genuine picture of what a war on the press looks like, you can't fan the pages of Nexis for grouchy things George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, or even Richard Nixon said about reporters, newspapers, and networks. You've got to go back to the 1930s, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt raged against the press like noisy clockwork.
Roosevelt's fury couldn't have been more displaced, in part because newspapers and reporters received him like a conquering hero after his 1932 election, reports Graham J. White in his 1979 book, FDR and the Press:
The initial victory of Franklin Roosevelt over the Washington press was swift and glorious. Demonstrating a virtuosity that amazed them, the new president took the Capital correspondents by storm, winning, from the outset, their affection and admiration; securing, over the crucial early stages of the New Deal, their allegiance and support.
Roosevelt especially disliked "interpretive reporting," which Time and Newsweek were popularizing, writes Betty Houchin Winfield in her 1990 book, FDR and the News Media. Roosevelt recoiled when a reporter asked him what interpretive angle the president would take if he were to write a piece about the Democratic Party's 1934 landslide victory. "I think it is a mistake for newspapers to go over into that field in the news stories," Roosevelt said. His prescription for what reporters should do for readers: "Give them the facts and nothing else." (One can almost see Dunn and Axelrod giving Fox the same advice.)
The president reserved his greatest disdain for press proprietors, whom he blamed for what he considered unfair and distorted coverage. "It is not the reporter" who is responsible for "colored news stories and the failure on the part of some papers to print the news," Roosevelt said in December 1935. "It goes back to the owner of the paper."For a genuine presidential war on the press, see the one FDR waged in the 1930s.... more
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Author Joy Ibsen of Trout Creek, MI will sign her latest book "Unafraid" and host a presentation at 7 p.m. (CT) on Monday, August 24, 2009 in the Danish Immigrant Museum in Elk Horn, Iowa.
A former resident of nearby Kimballton, IA, Ibsen will be singing and playing piano during a songfest that will include works from her first book "Songs of Denmark."
Co-authored by her late father, Rev. Harald Ibsen, "Unafraid" includes portions of sermons he delivered at the Immanuel Lutheran Church in Kimballton, IA, followed by a fiction story about how his words impacted local parishioners.
The event is sponsored by the Danish Brotherhood Lodge 341 and the Danish Immigrant Museum.
It include songfest of Danish-American songs using a recently refurnished piano donated by the famous late Danish comedian Victor Borge.
Joy Ibsen is past president of the Danish Immigrant Museum board of directors.
Call Clayton Nielsen at 1-712-764-4343 or Annette Andersen at 1-712-773-2025.
Danish Immigrant Museum in Elk Horn, IA
http://www.danishmuseum.orgAuthor Joy Ibsen of Trout Creek, MI will sign her latest book "Unafraid" and... more
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It has all finally caught up to this crooked Politician.
Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was arrested this morning by federal agents, according to the Chicago Tribune. The paper, which cites a single unnamed source, says it couldn't confirm the information with a spokesman for the Democratic governor or federal prosecutors.
The charges have not been disclosed.
The FBI has been conducting a wide-ranging investigation of corruption in the Blagojevich administration.
Earlier this morning, the Trib reported that federal investigators were authorized to surreptitiously record the governor while he was choosing a replacement for President-elect Barack Obama in the U.S. Senate.
Update at 9:26 a.m. ET: The Chicago Sun-Times says it has confirmed the Blagojevich arrest with an unnamed source of its own. A news conference is expected later today.
Update at 9:34 a.m. ET: The Associated Press says Blagojevich and his chief of staff were taken into custody.It has all finally caught up to this crooked Politician.
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The Tribune Company, the newspaper and television chain that publishes The Los Angeles Times and The Chicago Tribune, filed for bankruptcy protection on Monday.
The move came less than a year after Samuel Zell, a Chicago real estate tycoon, took control of the Tribune chain and took on $13 billion in debt that threatens to cripple it in the face of a sinking economy and a collapse in advertising.
Mr. Zell said the company had enough cash to continue operating its 12 newspapers, 23 television stations, national cable channel and assorted other media holdings, and the company insisted that the filing would have no effect on employees’ payroll and benefits, or on the vast majority of their retirement accounts.
But in light of its shrinking cash flow, Tribune decided to file for bankruptcy in a Delaware court, with the urging of some of its major creditors who met with Tribune representatives over the previous three days.
The recession and the shift of advertising to the Internet have hit newspapers with the sharpest drop in advertising revenue since the Depression — Tribune’s papers were down 19 percent in the third quarter — and some major newspapers have defaulted on debt or been put up for sale, with no takers. But Tribune’s problems were made significantly worse by the unusual $8.2 billion deal put together last year by Mr. Zell, which took the company private and nearly tripled its debt load, driving the company deeper into debt than any other major newspaper publisher.
The company has cut its staff and products, deeply and repeatedly, in an attempt to stay ahead of debt payments. In May, it also sold one of its most profitable newspapers, Newsday, to Cablevision for $650 million.
Tribune faces more than $900 million in interest payments over the next year, and a $512 million principal payment due in June.
At least this would save a bunch of paper...The Tribune Company, the newspaper and television chain that publishes The Los Angeles... more
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Tribune has hired bankruptcy advisers as the ailing newspaper company faces a potential bankruptcy filing, people briefed on the matter said.
The newspaper, which was taken private last year by billionaire investor Samuel Zell, has hired advisers including Lazard and Sidley Austin, one of its longtime law firms, these people said. Tribune has been hobbled by debt related to that sale last year, which has been compounded by the growing drought of advertising for newspapers.
It is only the latest — and biggest — sign of duress for the newspaper industry yet. Several newspaper companies have struggled to cope with declining revenues and mounting debt woes. Tribune and many other newspaper
While Tribune has sought to ameliorate its woes by selling off assets like the Chicago Cubs, the company still faces a looming debt crunch. Tribune hired Lazard several weeks ago to assess its options, these people said. Sidley Austin is a longtime outside adviser to Tribune, and it has a well-respected bankruptcy practice as well.
I think if they start making newspapers like the ones in "Minority Report", more people would buy them. News and information on plain old paper just doesn't do it for anyone anymore...Tribune has hired bankruptcy advisers as the ailing newspaper company faces a... more
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There is an open letter from the We The People Foundation to Mr. Barack Obama that will appear in the Chicago Tribune on December first. In bold type it asks ” ARE YOU A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES?” and “ARE YOU LEGALLY ELIGIBLE TO HOLD THE OFFICE OF PRESIDENT?”There is an open letter from the We The People Foundation to Mr. Barack Obama that... more
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Current and former Los Angeles Times staffers have sued Sam Zell and the Tribune Co. over allegedly illegal and irresponsible actions since Zell's leveraged buyout of Tribune Co. last year.
The complaint, filed Tuesday in federal court in Los Angeles, alleges the structure of the buyout -- executed through an Employee Stock Ownership Plan -- and Zell's conduct have diminished the value of Tribune Co. in order to benefit himself and fellow board members.
Tribune Co. spokesman Gary Weitman said, "We have not seen the lawsuit and will decline comment."
Plaintiffs include Times auto critic Dan Neil and former Times staffers Corie Brown, Henry Weinstein, Myron Levin and Walter Roche Jr. along with Jack Nelson, the former Washington, D.C. bureau chief
The suit, which seek class-action status, alleges that through "destructive management and self-dealings," Zell and his co-fiduciaries have breached their fiduciary duties to the ESOP beneficiaries. It also alleges that Zell has de-funded employees retirement packages, raided the employee pension fund for more than $400 million, and eliminated more than a thousand Tribune Co. jobs at the Los Angeles Times, Baltimore Sun and Chicago Tribune.
In a news release, the plaintiffs said they do not seek to enrich themselves. "Rather, their announced intentions are: to protect Tribune Company's pension and retirement funds; to give the employee-owners a place at the table with regard to management of their assets; and to remove Zell and his cronies from the Tribune Company's board in order to save what is left of a still great news gathering operation," the announcement said.Current and former Los Angeles Times staffers have sued Sam Zell and the Tribune Co.... more
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The Chicago Tribune shed more than 40 newsroom employees today, which, coupled with last week's voluntary exit of more than 30 journalists, means the paper has cut 80 people from its editorial staff as part of cost-cutting campaign at all of parent Tribune Co.'s newspapers.
The latest round of cutbacks is the paper's fourth since late 2005, when the newsroom was said to have had 670 positions. Other departments at the paper have been making cuts, as well.
The reductions are consistent with a trend common not just to Tribune Co. properties but newspapers across the nation, including the New York Times and Washington Post, related to online businesses growth failing to offset accelerated declines in print ad revenue.The Chicago Tribune shed more than 40 newsroom employees today, which, coupled with... more
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By Associated Press// Chicago Tribune
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TORONTO - Canada's federal privacy commissioner has launched an investigation into Facebook after four students complained that the popular Web site violates Canadian law by disclosing personal information to advertisers without proper consent.
The University of Ottawa law students, some of whom are dedicated Facebook users, allege in a complaint lodged Friday that the social networking Web site has committed 22 violations of the law.
"There's definitely some significant shortcomings with Facebook's privacy settings and with their ability to protect users," said Harley Finkelstein, 24, one of the students behind the complaint.
Facebook has refuted the claims, saying that the complaint ignores key elements of the company's policy.
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Full story at link.By Associated Press// Chicago Tribune
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Jesus leaves Chicago--and there's a New Dean in town where student's identities need to be protected when giving their positive sentiment in their own school's own glossy publication
Its a story of hidden sources, POWER, the potential RISE and FALL from the top--and one journalist's quest for the truth in a dangerously political environment in which others are too scared to speak out.
Will this bring a much ACHOO'd institution to its knees?
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