The Times introduced its two-page Chicago supplement on the 20th, and the local-news gambit has spurred “a new-fangled newspaper war” with the Chicago Tribune, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. The Chicago News Cooperative (The Times‘ partner in the venture) is composed mostly of ex-Tribuners, and the sense of rivalry between the Read More
- "If [Axl] Rose ever had a moment’s doubt or repentance over what Chinese Democracy has cost him in time (13 years), money (14 studios are listed in the credits) and body count — including the exit of every other founding member of the band — he left no room for it in these 14 Read More
Since at least the mid-90s, Oprah Winfrey has been credited with reigniting the publishing industry with her Oprah’s Book Club. More recently, she’s done her best to boost sales of Amazon’s Kindle. But can the most powerful woman in media save daily newspapers? (Please.)
The Chicago Sun-Times‘ Mark Bieganski sure hopes so. Read More
This week in Robert Novak news, according to his home paper, The Chicago Sun-Times, the syndicated columnist is retiring following last week’s announcement that he was diagnosed with a brain tumor. That bit of grim news came a week after reports that Mr. Novak hit an elderly homeless man with his car. Read More
When Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential (now the basis for a sitcom on Fox) was published in 2000, it yanked aside the culinary curtain and displayed the restaurant kitchen in all its ugliness. Julie and Julia, a revealing memoir about how Julie Powell challenged herself to cook in a single year every one of the 524 Read More
“No.”
“I knew nothing about the decision.”
“I didn’t know about it, I was not told about it, it was not brought to my attention.”
Hillary Rodham Clinton was expressing the same quality-total ignorance-on the same subject-clemency for the Puerto Rican terrorists (or freedom fighters) recently released from prison by the conciliatory Read More
