What is going on at the Chicago Tribune?
Molly Ivins died yesterday, taking with her a unique and often insightful voice. The Chicago Tribune today ran a very nice piece from Molly’s editor and also ran an editorial about her. I don’t know if the Trib editors were just choked up by the prospect of assigning her space to someone else from the National Review, but the editorial read strangely. Here’s an excerpt:
Molly Ivins was dying, and Wednesday was her deadline. Breast cancer, damnable breast cancer, took another of the many women whose futures it cuts short.
Now, I understand the sentiment here, but this sounds like they’d just taken a break from reading The Scarlet Letter. Last month the editors referred to Keith Ellison’s use of Jefferson’s Koran as “reassuring” and ran the illustration I bitched about yesterday. The Tribune has been a conservative paper for years, but it sure is getting weirder and raggier.
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