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PI Original
by Josh Kalven
3:46pm
Mon Jun 30, 2008

Life On The Trail

Media

Late last week, national media outlets won an access-related battle when the Obama campaign agreed to allow a small group of reporters -- called a "protective pool" -- to track all of the candidate's movements. On Saturday, the Sun-Times' Lynn Sweet posted ...

PI Original
by Josh Kalven
1:29pm
Sun Jun 29, 2008

Chicago's Walled Gardens

Sun-Times

In a great post over at Urbanagora, Kiyoshi Martinez uses the Huffington Post's impending arrival on the Chicago media scene as an occasion to examine the current state of the Sun-Times, the Tribune, and various online outlets. As he notes, Arianna Huffington picked a ...

PI Original
by Mose Buchele
9:24am
Fri Jun 20, 2008
1 comment

HuffPo Chicago

Media

As part of an effort to expand into local news reporting, Arianna Huffington has announced that the famed Huffington Post will be opening up newsrooms in cities across the U.S. The first city on the list? Chicago, naturally:

Huffington said the Chicago site would ...

PI Original
by Josh Kalven
3:17pm
Mon Jun 16, 2008
1 comment

Rhodes Calls Obama's Father's Day Speech A "Farce"

Media

A persistent skeptic of Barack Obama, Beachwood Reporter founder and editor Steve Rhodes represents a truly independent voice and his skewering of the presidential media coverage this election cycle has oftentimes been spot-on. But occasionally Rhodes seems a bit too trigger-...

PI Original
by Progress Illinois
1:35pm
Mon Jun 16, 2008

Dennis Byrne's Fifth Annual "Iraq Is Getting Better" Column

Media

Today's Tribune column from Dennis Byrne features another doozy of a thesis: the Iraq war will soon end in an American "victory":

[Barack Obama], his fans and much of the media haven't noticed in the heat of the presidential campaign, but the war is winding ...

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by Adam Doster
12:34pm
Fri Jun 13, 2008
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The Empty Suit Argument

Media

It seems that conservatives will lob two major critiques at Barack Obama this election cycle. Straight from Nixonland, the first is based in what Mark Schmitt has called the identity politics of Americaness. Obama shouldn't lead this country because he's too cosmopolitan, ...

PI Original
by Mose Buchele
10:21am
Fri Jun 13, 2008

Obama's Purported "Suburban Women" Problem

Media

A recent NBC/Wall Street Journal poll has been getting a lot of press lately. While showing that Barack Obama enjoyed a noticeable bump in support from women since Hillary Clinton exited the presidential race, the survey appears to indicate that Obama is less popular than ...

PI Original
by Josh Kalven
12:53pm
Mon Jun 9, 2008

Tribune's Dold Overlooks McCain's Immigration Flip-Flop

White House '08

Appearing on WTTW's Chicago Tonight on Friday, Tribune editorial page editor Bruce Dold suggested that Barack Obama and John McCain share the same position on immigration. Watch that claim -- as well as Dold's assertion that Obama suffers from an "elitism divide&quot...

PI Original
by Adam Doster
12:22pm
Mon Jun 9, 2008
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Byrne And Kass Worry Aloud About Obama's Illinois Ties

Chicago Tribune

By calling 70 percent of Americans "get-out-of-Iraq-right-now zealots," Dennis Byrne's column in the Tribune today starts off on the wrong foot. Unfortunately for him, it doesn't really recover. Here's the thesis:

But if Obama's affiliations with the likes of ...