University Journo Dissects Chicago's New Youth Tabs

november 18, 2002  11:30 am
RedEye and Red Streak both "suck to similar degrees, and both emulate the clichés of youth-oriented marketing: brevity, snark, 'edginess' ... and color," Whet Moser of The Chicago Maroon writes. But their other, more important, failures include not being a substitute for the "brevity and depth" of the Internet or either a viable substitute for or a precursor to reading the regular daily, the University of Chicago columnist writes.