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A Year Without Journalismnew
The author proposes an answer to the new media trends that are killing the newspaper business: a year-long journalism strike! (pdf)
Chicago Reader |
Michael Lenehan |
12-30-2005 |
Media
Tags: media
15 Candidates! We Can Help--The Reader's Guide to the Big Showdown
This isn't just a Senate race. It's the reality show of the year. Everyone's running: career pols, business leaders, ex-POWs, lawyers, schoolteachers, ice cream makers.
Chicago Reader |
Harold Henderson, Ben Joravsky, Ted Kleine, Tori Marlan, Michael Marsh, Michael Miner, Grant Pick, Kate Schmidt, Mike Sula |
05-13-2005 |
Politics
Hey Preservationists: Quit Puckering and Get Pissed!
Compromise and ass-kissing don't save buildings. It's time for the people charged with preserving Chicago's past to make some demands.
Chicago Reader |
Ben Joravsky |
05-13-2005 |
Politics
The Government Is Lying To You!
Even City of Chicago and Cook County officials admit it: If you live in a tax increment financing district, your property tax bill is misreporting where your money goes.
Chicago Reader |
Ben Joravsky |
05-13-2005 |
Politics
Property Tax Roulette
A Chicago activist got the bright idea to check out how tax bills for local officials looked this year. Turns out the pols are as good a random sample as any to show how wack the system is.
Chicago Reader |
Ben Joravsky |
05-13-2005 |
Politics
Justice Junkies
Lou Rubin started watching trials in Chicago's Dirksen Building in the early 1980s, joining a group of about 30 retirees, almost all of them male, who visited the courthouse daily. Court employees gave him a surprise party when he turned 90.
Chicago Reader |
Steve Bogira |
05-13-2005 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
The Grand Inquisitor
Lawyers who present oral arguments before a higher court are often interrupted. But those interruptions usually mean the judges have read the briefs and are paying attention.
Chicago Reader |
Steve Bogira |
05-13-2005 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
What They See and What They Don't
Arrests and even criminal convictions are usually inadmissible. But this defendant's chances may have got a boost when he was allowed to tell the jury about his educational background.
Chicago Reader |
Steve Bogira |
05-13-2005 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Serial-Killer Expert Helen Morrison Debunked
The media have taken this self-proclaimed profiler at face value, but her story doesn't stand up to scrutiny (although she does have John Gacy's brain in her basement).
Chicago Reader |
Cliff Doerksen |
08-07-2004 |
Media
What People in Spain Are Saying about Iraqnew
The torture at Abu Ghraib prison reminded a contributor to the International Herald Tribune of the sight of white people laughing in old photos of American lynchings and a writer in El Pais of "young, strong, jolly" German soldiers having their way with naked Jews.
Chicago Reader |
Michael Miner |
08-07-2004 |
Media
Former Wilco Member Debuts First Solo Albumnew
The ash from Jay Bennett's cigarette is about to burn his fingers. Suddenly he feels the heat, snaps from his trance, crushes out the cigarette, and begins fiddling with knobs and faders. The song's finished, and he's pulling up another one.
Chicago Reader |
Bob Mehr |
08-07-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Rock by Numbers
To determine if there's any rhyme or reason to music writing on the Web, guitarist Loren Wilson analyzed the language used in record reviews on Pitchforkmedia.com.
Chicago Reader |
J. Niimi |
07-20-2004 |
Music
