By Steve Rhodes
Nothing clangs when they walk. Plus: Slowing Rauner’s Endorsement Roll, Anatomy Of A Tribune Editorial, RahmNation, and CPD Swabbies On The CTA.
SHOW NOTES
:00: Strawberry Rock Show.
:55: Eddie and the Hot Rods at the Double Door on Tuesday night.
1:57: The Sun-Times Is An Even Hotter Mess.
* The Beachwood Radio Hour #28: The Sun-Times Is A Hot Mess.
* The Beachwood Radio Hour #27: Endorsements Are Bullshit.
* McKinney’s resignation.
* Every beat a blog.
* LeapSource story was not ready for publication.
* The height of hypocrisy.
* A thought exercise:
SUN-TIMES REPORTER TO JIM KIRK: So I have a few questions for you about McKinney.
KIRK: Just use my statement.
REPORTER: Oh. Okay.
KIRK: Don’t give up so easily! C’mon, be a reporter! This is Chicago. Try harder.
REPORTER: Oh, okay, um, McKinney said that . . .
KIRK: . . . Sorry, no comment.
* Ann Marie Lipinski vs. Michael Cooke.
* Carol Marin has also refused to comment, instead only writing this column which cleverly didn’t tell us anything we didn’t already know.
* No one ever followed up with the Tribune and NBC.
* Everyone got promoted while I lost a major (still unreplaced) revenue source and future partner.
* GTCRauner hired Randy Michaels to run a post-Tribune venture. A lot of local journos went to work for him despite his misogynistic history. Would they have done so if he lost his Trib job due to racism or anti-Semitism instead of sexism?
* “Nothing clanks when he walks.”
* Steinberg vs. McKinney.
* Wemple vs. McKinney.
* McKinney on Bourbon Street.
* McKinney petition.
39:44: B-Real at the Concord on Thursday night.
40:24: Endorsements Are Lies.
* The [Endorsement 2014] Papers to come.
* @BeachwoodReport.
* How to craft a Rauner endorsement.
* Shame on the Springfield State Journal-Register.
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51:20: Anatomy Of ATribune Editorial.
1:02:30: King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard.
1:03:32: RahmNation.
1:07:22: CPD Swabbies On The CTA.
* If it turns pink, you’re a terrorist!
1:11:08: The Beer Thinker: An Oktoberfest For The Rest Of Us.
1:11:50: The Beachwood Radio Sports Hour #23: It’s All Cutler’s Fault.
* I did pick the Bears to beat New England, though.
STOPPAGE TIME: 16:36.
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Posted on October 26, 2014