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Posts Tagged ‘Sun Times’

Politics: Is Clinton trying to ’swiftboat’ Obama?

On her blog, the Chicago Sun-Times Lynn Sweet says the Clintonistas might be doing just that:
Starting an unusual series of heated exchanges between the two front-running presidential campaigns was a three paragraph item in Novak’s Sunday Chicago Sun-Times column that says “agents of Sen. Hillary Clinton are spreading the word in Democratic circles that [...]

November 19, 2007 in Statehouse & Capitol
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Conrad Black: Freedom Fighter

Not only is Chicago Sun-Times owner Conrad Black innocent of all racketeering and fraud charged, he’s a freedom fighter and will refuse any offer of a plea bargain.
Translation: I still have enough money hidden away in foreign accounts to buy my way out of this mess.
Conrad Black,Sun-Times

September 23, 2006 in Watchdog
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New Illinois blogger

It’s Tom Roeser, the Chicago Sun-Times columnist who seems to have such a crush on Aaron Schock.

September 16, 2005 in Citizen Journalism
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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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Aaron, Sun-Times must be blushing, but for different reasons

I think the Sun-Times’ Tom Roesser either has a crush on State Rep. Aaron Schock or wants to adopt him. Either way, I’m embarassed for the Sun-Times. They’ve got a political columnist whose idea of political punditry is writing stuff that could run unedited on GOP campaign literature. Or the party Website.
Aaron Schock,Tom Roeser,peoria,Sun Times,GOP,republicans

August 15, 2005 in Watchdog
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Oh, will these guys just shut the Hell up and get on with it …

Rich Miller links to a Sun Times article that says Congressman Ray LaHood is holding off on an official announcement for the governor’s race because Jim Edgar told him that he might decide to run for run for governor again. But Rich also has a link to a Pantagraph article that has Edgar saying (in [...]

August 10, 2005 in Citizen Journalism
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Rauschenberger: ‘Chicago am bad’

Doug Finke turns in a fine column today by leading with a fine example of yet another downstate politician running for office by scapegoating the Windy City:
“This is not about going to war with anybody except the politically corrupt Chicago guys who think the state of Illinois is nothing but an opportunity for them to [...]

August 7, 2005 in Watchdog
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Psst! Hey buddy? Got any newsfeeds to spare?

I’m running headlines from the Chicago Sun Times on my siderail. I’m certainly not hand-coding those links. I’m using the ST’s newsfeed. In layman’s terms, it’s part of a news-oriented Web site or blog that shows readers only the headlines and articles, not the other drivel like banners and graphics.
These feeds can be tweaked so [...]

August 3, 2005 in Citizen Journalism
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Tom Roeser has a huge crush on Aaron Schock

As promised, here is my fisking of Tom Roeser’s column
in the Chicago Sun-Times about Aaron Schock.

September 19, 2004 in Statehouse & Capitol
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Chicago Reader disses Mirage

For the uninitiated, the Mirage refers to the legendary undercover project of the Chicago Sun-Times. The newspaper essentially bought a bar, staffed it with reporters and secretly photographed the people who came in and left. They found what they assumed they would: a parade of government workers — fire and safety inspectors, liquor inspectors, police [...]

October 4, 2002 in Watchdog
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Sun-Times, your bias is showing

The Chicago Sun-Times‘ bias against former Chicago Tribune columnist Bob Greene is showing. In a remarkable story, on Saturday, reporter Scott Fornek quizzes the local branch of the FBI on its investigation of the woman with whom Greene had a sexual encounter 10 years ago. The second paragraph of the story states:
A spokesman for the [...]

September 21, 2002 in Watchdog
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