South Side Sox felt it necessary to explain this to its readers: The White Sox were originally on WGN-TV. Jack Brickhouse split time between the White Sox and the Cubs. They made the jump to WFLD-TV (Ch. 32) in 1968. In retrospect, it was a bad idea because Ch. 32 wasn’t nearly as powerful as [...]
Archive for July 13th, 2010
I am Now Officially Old
Posted in Bloggin, Culture on July 13, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Local news dying?
Posted in Bloggin, Economics, How Capitalism Will Ruin You on July 13, 2010 | 2 Comments »
So it seems that the promise of citizen journalists is pretty much a pipe dream: Summing up, the authors paint a fairly grim picture of the state of local news. “Despite hopes for a thriving genre of citizen journalism as at least a partial replacement for legacy journalism, those hopes have not been realized,” they [...]