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by Michael Miner on October 2nd 2008 - 12:01 a.m.

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 The locally owned Chicago Tribune and the colonized Los Angeles Times are equally troubled Tribune Company newspapers, but Los Angeles seems to care and Chicago doesn't. I've written about this.

Here's the latest evidence that in LA the state of the Times has become a civic issue -- the mayors' bet over who wins the Cubs-Dodgers playoff series. 



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Claire
October 2nd - 4:54 a.m.
'“If the Dodgers win, Los Angeles gets Chicago’s 2016 Olympic bid,” said Mayor Villaraigosa.'

L.A. ALL THE WAY!
L.A. ALL THE WAY!
Mark Jeffries
October 3rd - 10:09 a.m.
Thank you, racist NIMBY.

Guess you want Chicago's image to be forever "Al Capone, Bang Bang!"
Claire
October 3rd - 4:52 p.m.
It used to be that patriotism was the last refuge of a scoundrel. Now, it's racism.

Assuming there's a need to "re-brand" Chicago's image surely it could be done more cheaply than a process that will bankrupt this city and feed the endemic corruption that already has us $420 million in the hole.

And the "bang bang" continues daily in the minority neighborhoods you claim to be so concerned about.



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Branzburg v. Hayes, the split U.S. Supreme Court decision (1972) generally construed by journalists and judges alike as affirming some sort of reporter's privilege in federal courts.

U.S. Appellate Judge Richard Posner's influential opinion in McKevitt v. Pallasch (2003) telling those journalists and judges they were wrong -- there is no such privilege.

John Milton's Areopagitica (1643), one of the earliest and most eloquent arguments for a free press. Said Milton: "As good almost kill a man as kill a good book; who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye."

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