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A Mess of a Column, Cuz News papers are Raaaacist

March 9, 2010 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

For the Chicago Sun-Times, columnist Laura Washington laments the degraded state of American newspapers. She says that “hard news” has been replaced by “fluff and titillating trash.” Washington also cries that real news is an “endangered species.” But if newspaper writing has been laid low, Laura Washington’s column is an example of that wretched state as opposed to an example of the opposite as this is one of the messiest columns I’ve seen in a while. And naturally it’s all because of raaaacism according to Washington.

Washington starts her piece scolding the news media for missing the Scott Lee Cohen story. Cohen, the winning Democrat Lt. Gov. candidate, had a strange history of violence and prostitution that no media operative seemed to ferret out before Illinois Democrats nominated him in February’s primary. Washington also laments all the many job cuts in the media landscape.

Worse, according to Washington, is that the reporters that are left are “being diverted to cover meaningless fluff and titillating trash.”
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A Mess of a Column, Cuz News papers are Raaaacist”

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Sun-Times Goes Into Blame Bush Mode for Chicago Olympics Loss

October 5, 2009 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

It didn’t take long for a major media outlet to lapse back into blame Bush mode once Chicago’s bid of the 2016 Olympics failed on the first ballot. The day after the startling loss the Chicago Sun-Times revealed its penchant for “Bush Derangement Syndrome” by reporting the claim that the reason Chicago lost is because Bush made the world mad at us.

Even as Presidential spokesman Robert Gibbs rejected the idea, the Sun-Times eagerly reported that “some Chicago officials” were saying that they lost the bid because of Bush.

Some Chicago officials say anti-American resentment likely played a role in Chicago’s Olympic bid dying in the first round Friday.

President Obama could not undo in one year the resentment against America that President Bush and others built up for years, they said.

The facts of the matter, however, seem to argue against the blame-Bush meme. Chicago had a lot against it from the beginning, none of which had anything to do with George W. Bush. Few have bothered to pay much attention to the fact that Chicago simply doesn’t have the infrastructure nor the space to build the giant facilities needed to host the games.

Still, it is interesting that certain people want to blame Bush even without the slightest bit of proof that it might be so.
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