Chicagoist: How High Will The Hawk Fly?

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Fri, 17 Feb 2006 20:22:04 -0600

Wait a second, Kot getting some boilerplate comment from a city lackey is more significant than the fact that he missed -- or intentionally chose to omit -- the real circumstances under which the League of Chicago Music venues was launched? Not sure what your concept of good journalism is, but I'd say it's a rather huge failure on his part to have completely botched such a crucial aspect of the story. Why don't we you continue reading daily newpaper puff pieces -- is he afraid of offending the Metro or Jam? - and leave the investigative journalism to the alternative press.

Janet

Fri, 17 Feb 2006 18:56:27 -0600

As usual they miss the story? Give me a break. Without the dailies, specifically the Tribune, these organizations may not even exist. I know that members of both boards credit Kot's series of stories about E2 and the inspection-fallout that followed as leading to the creation of both the music commission and league of music venues. The premise of his story today is that these organizations have separate agendas and aren't working together, and implicitly asking why? And again, he's the only reporter quoting actual sources in City Hall, who echo this concern. After all, it's one thing to form a music commission or a league of chicago music venues, it's another to have them heard in Daley's office. And that will be the real test for both these groups....

Sara Williams

Fri, 17 Feb 2006 18:17:23 -0600

Well, I'm inferring that to a certain extent. But I think the fact that Hill resigned from the music commish board with a terse e-mail -- and that no one from the League has been in contact with the Chicago Music Comission (both of those facts are pretty explicit in the Reader story) leads me to think there is some serious ill will there.

Mr. Smith

Fri, 17 Feb 2006 18:00:06 -0600

Interesting, I hadn't seen that. I can't speak for DeRo or Kot, but I had difficulty getting anyone to go on record discussing the split though it seemed clear from their comments that it was not amicable though I don't know if I get "nasty" from that piece. I think it makes sense to have two organizations for the reasons I outlined above and that Kate Hill alludes to in the Reader piece. But for them not to work together makes both organizations weaker.

Sara Williams

Fri, 17 Feb 2006 17:42:30 -0600

As usual the daily papers miss the real story here. The current issue of the Chicago Reader details the somewhat nasty split that occurred between members of the Chicago Music Comission that resulted in the League of Chicago Music venues forming, and why it looks like the latter is a weakened organization as a result. http://www.chicagoreader.com/TheMeter/060217.html That's the link you should have relating to the Hawk Winter Festival

dan

Fri, 17 Feb 2006 14:08:49 -0600

The metaphor begs the question: Which one is the gorilla and which one is the pail of water?