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Posts Tagged ‘newspaper’

Old news: JS will charge for obituaries

Managing editor Jack Brimeyer himself broke the news officially to readers: grieving families will now have to pay to have a full obituary* in the Journal Star. Of course, Brimeyer waits until the end of the fourth paragraph to get to lower the boom, and he does it in an underhanded fashion. Instead of [...]

August 28, 2005 in Local
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Black day coming for robber baron Conrad

Conrad Black — who wished to be called “Lord Black” after he bought a title — has close to being indicted. He and his cronies financially raped the publicly held company that published the Chicago Sun-Times. And now he is one step closer to being punished for it, now that his right hand man is [...]

August 21, 2005 in Watchdog
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