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By Michael Miner
Hot Type Archive
May 29, 2008: Neil Steinberg's combo of arrogance, insecurity, and alcoholism make for an unexpectedly touching memoir.
May 15, 2008: The Trib's asking readers where else to put the Children's Museum.
May 1, 2008: No Rhyme or Reason
April 24, 2008: In Saint Louis, distinguished Post-Dispatch vets start their own Web site.
April 17, 2008: Should the Tribune have let online readers trash Rachel Barton Pine?
April 10, 2008: Did personal dynamism—and not social or political movements—propel our highest-profile black leaders to power?
April 3, 2008: A new law that protects citizens trying to participate in government gets its first day in court.
March 27, 2008: Hot Type's coveted Golden BAT award goes to a computer program.
March 20, 2008: Could a regional newspaper improve the midwest's prospects?
February 28, 2008: Oak Park's Wednesday Journal rescues three city papers from certain death.
February 21, 2008: The presidential race this year looks a lot like the one in 1960. And 1968. And 1976. And 1980. And 1828.
February 14, 2008: A high-tech company gets ripped off for the fourth time in a decidedly low-tech fashion.
February 7, 2008: The fight over photo rights to high school sporting events involves more than the First Amendment.
January 31, 2008: When is it OK to let an innocent man rot in jail?
January 24, 2008: Want more coverage for your candidate? Report on him yourself at Triblocal.com.
January 17, 2008: Can a town without competing dailies really be a global city?
January 10, 2008: Taking the Tribune's Temperature: What workers inside the office and out are saying about their corners of the kingdom.
December 13, 2007 When will the sports press get out of the sports business?
December 6, 2007 The Chicago Reporter held a documentary contest. Not even the winner's happy.
November 29, 2007 Pundits bitch-slap each other over a 27-year-old campaign speech.
November 22, 2007 What could keep a reporter on the righteous path in these dismal times?
November 15, 2007 A high-tech company gets ripped off for the fourth time in a decidedly low-tech fashion.
November 08, 2007 The city's top lawyer reports to both the mayor and the City Council—until they disagree. Then it's clear where her loyalties lie.
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John Dobberstein at 8:50 PM on 12/9/2007
Subject:Conrad Black
So where is your column giving him his last butt-ripping before he goes to prison? I worked for the Holinger-ized Daily Southtown from 2000-04 and wish I could be there for Black's sentencing. He drained my old paper, and the Sun-Times and many other papers of resources while he lived in the lap of luxury. In fact, going back to my days in Michigan, I spent 7 years with Hollinger papers. Our raises were nonexistent, our escalators were shut down "to save electricity," our staffs were ever-shrinking, all while he drove fancy cars and dined on the finest foods. I hope Lord Black thinks of us lowly commoners while he's washing windows and picking up cigarette butts.
John Dobberstein
Milwaukee, WI
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John at 5:01 PM on 2/21/2008
Picking up cigarette butts? That sonofabitch should be fed them, instead.
I'm another John who worked with John (though, surprisingly, didn't know him at the time).
The only thing they've achieved at these Hollingerized properties (a term the former CFO and other ass-kissers under Radler proudly and freely used in private) is as a set up to the sell to the lowest common denominator in the business, which would be Gatehouse.
The organization is filled at the top with former Radler henchmen and other lickspittles from the old "American Publishing of Arkansas" days.
Forty percent-plus margins, and leaky roofs, late bill paying, and anyone with self respect and/or a decent wage sacked.
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