Think I’m tough on the Peoria Journal Star’s award-winning (snicker) editorial page? Today, Rich Miller expresses some irritation with the Chicago Tribune’s editorial video poker legalization:
Today’s editorial is a long, strident, breathless slam on legalized, limited and taxed video gaming. It’s chock full of phrases that would make nutballs like Alan Keyes smile with approval.
The Tribune continued its 9/11 attack theme today by claiming that video gaming is “invading” the state. That hysterical statement completely ignores the fact that almost totally unregulated, mostly untaxed video poker machines already crowd the Illinois landscape today, and pay out illegally.
Ouch.
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Billy Dennis is a former reporter and editor at small daily and weekly newspapers in Illinois and Missouri. He comments on media, news and politics. He also owns and operates 
But the machines in /every bar in the state/ are for “entertainment purposes only”!