Chicagoist: More Pearls of Wisdom

Laura Oppenheimer

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:13:27 -0600

A2: almost all newspapers run AP stories (and at least all those in major cities). But the AP stories don't make up for the insulting content that isn't AP.

A2

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:37:56 -0600

What newspaper doesn't run AP stories?

1905B

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:52:04 -0600

too hard, I know.

Spook

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:47:47 -0600

Kookybites, By being amused by the story printed above, You sir, are clearly not fit to feed pigeons, let alone be honored to let them take respite on your person whilst sitting on a red fire hydrant! Regards S

Spook

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:46:49 -0600

1905B

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:41:02 -0600

What's with all the Red Eye bashing? And even worse, its readers? I don't have any problem picking up a Red Eye; it's definitely not my only source of news, but it's free and it's short. It does what it's supposed to do. And just as A2 said, the articles are fine, they're all AP stories. Red Eye just needs to get rid of all their columnists. They're trying to hard, and failing miserably, to be non-fictional Carrie Bradshaws.

kookybites

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:33:32 -0600

Am I a bad person for finding Spook's blue line story to be hilarious?

Spook

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:28:11 -0600

"hate to break it to you, but those are the same articles you read in any newspaper in the entire country." And you wonder why we have the President we have? And of course Sir Mind of a Read Eye Reader, it’s not in all News Papers, just the ones more and more people are reading. Enjoy yer self kitten p.s This morning there was a cute woman on the Ye Old Blue line. I got on with a homeless dude accompanied by his unheartwarming smell and a dirty large sack containing all of his earthly possibles. Two seats were left, one next to the cutie dressed like a banker, the other next to a grungy woman reading a book. The cute women looked at me with pleading eyes that said please sit next to me so I want have to sit next to the homeless smelly man. I looked, saw a Red –Stupid- Eye in her hands, and passed her right by to set next to the women reading the book, it was The Brothers Karamazov! Right before I got off the train I complemented her on her selection and she smiled. Boycott The Stupid Eye and shun all who read it!

spookhatespuppies

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 00:50:20 -0600

Hey, lay off him. He's written such hard hitting exposes on how "Once Taboo, Tatoos on Girls are Getting Hot!" (In 2007! What a brave new world we live in!) or "Money and Love Don't Always Mix Well". (Seriously?!) Bravo, Senor Slapdick, Bravo...

fed up

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 21:59:35 -0600

Simplecreature, Halle Berry is way hotter. You may be gay but how do you type being blind.

simplecreature

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 21:12:14 -0600

I love this bit Gay men always have intrigued me, if for no other reason than getting the perspective of a man who doesn't share my reaction to Halle Berry's topless scene in "Swordfish." So whenever I become acquainted with one, I always pick his brain. These "gay men" of which you speak, are they from the lands beyond the forest? Do they come from the sky in chariots of fire wearing robes made of the sun? Jesus what a stooge. Having had straight people talk to me in this "you're a gay, speak for you kind" way I can tell you it's almost as grating as some rampant homophobe claiming that my boyfriend and I are the heralds of the apocalypse. At least the bigots aren't playing at being enlightened. And I'd take Angela Bassett over Halle Berry in a queer heartbeat.

A2

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 19:18:44 -0600

I am not a big fan of some parts of the Red Eye, but what's with all the posturing? Isn't it 80-percent AP articles? I hate to break it to you, but those are the same articles you read in any newspaper in the entire country.

Freak_Deaky

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:57:24 -0600

It gives us a chuckle when we read that Chicagoist is calling to hold Red Eye to a higher standard. Remember Chicagoist, just because you give the source of a story a "HotLink" doesn't make you a journalist.

bopo

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:27:59 -0600

The RedEye: Because USA Today is so opaque and wordy.

Spook

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 15:01:27 -0600

Hey Ska, welcome to Chicagoist bro! I've always only deducted at least ten points from any one I see reading it, but thanks for raising the bar, 20 points it is! And I like how every one who reads the Stupid Eye lies about the reason why they read it,sudoku/cross work puzzels my A$$ Like "Not_another_username" said "I wouldn't pick up a Red Eye if there was a hundred dollar bill attached to it."

jenniferexacto

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:34:54 -0600

Newcity is pretty good.

bintie

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:21:52 -0600

The *only* good thing about the Redeye is that the guy who hands them out at the Irving Park (blue line) station in the morning also graciously opens the door and says good morning. He knows better than to try to hand me one of those papers, though.

jbran

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 13:56:05 -0600

Thank you thank you thank you for writing this. A friend emailed me one of his brilliant essays called "Looks Are Way Underrated" and it sent me into a tizzy, followed by a dark depression. To think that how many thousands of people are ingesting this crap makes me profoundly sad. Good thing it's sunny today.

jbran

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 13:55:41 -0600

matilda

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 13:37:14 -0600

And to think what a great newspaper town this once was.

ejshea

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 13:34:35 -0600

I'm sorry - for God's sake, he uses the word "bequeath." Using expensive vocabulary words in a free newspaper does not make you a better writer, dude. Just a shitty one. Yeesh. I just now went to read the offending article in its entirety and I just can't read further. He's giving me cramps. Big ones.

Shannon

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 13:33:26 -0600

chuck: what, that they ain't nothin to fuck with? i too started picking it up for the crossword and sometimes sudoku, if i 1. have time left in my trip and 2. feel like it. i know it's not a challenge, but i feel better for working my brain a tiny bit before work (as opposed to actually reading the red eye).

ejshea

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 13:29:57 -0600

That's exactly it. Ignoring it is probably the best policy, no matter how spot on Laura is in her post today. Unfortunately, most people like easy and unchallenged, which is why the Red Eye exists in the fashion that it does, and why, for example, they don't have people such as Zorn and Mo Ryan writing for it, and they have hacks like this guy.

pantagrapher

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 13:23:59 -0600

I can't even insult Red Eye anymore. I'm beginning to suspect it likes the attention.

Rachelle Bowden

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 13:20:40 -0600

yeh right, lou.. that's like my friend who just gets it for the sudoku.. at least that was his defense when we were rummaging through is bag and found (GASP!) several issues of the red eye.

ilr

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 13:17:32 -0600

This is why I only pick up the Red Eye for the crossword. funny -- the crossword is one of the reasons I stopped picking it up. That crossword is not a challenge at all.

thelou137

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 13:12:18 -0600

This is why I only pick up the Red Eye for the crossword.

ilr

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 13:02:32 -0600

I automatically deduct at least 15 IQ points from anyone I see reading the Red Eye. That's funny -- because during the short time I was picking up Red Eye, I felt like it was destroying at least twice that. I stopped picking it up and felt so much better for it.

Tankboy

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:51:17 -0600

Wait, let me get this straight ... The Reader fires some of its best writers only to print a review (an incredibly off-base review, by the way) by one of the RedEye's worst "columnists?" Holy fuck.

skafiend

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:49:15 -0600

I automatically deduct at least 15 IQ points from anyone I see reading the Red Eye. With that (ahem) newspaper, you get what you pay for.

Chuck Sudo

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:37:42 -0600

Oh, wait...

Chuck Sudo

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:37:00 -0600

At least he's spot on about Wu Tang Clan.

Not_another_username

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:36:22 -0600

I wouldn't pick up a Red Eye if there was a hundred dollar bill attached to it. Face it--we don't have a newspaper in Chicago anymore.

Ferdy

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:34:31 -0600

Why should it be any surprise that RedEye would have a columnist like Siebert when they have the equivalent of him--Neil Steinberg--competing for readers in the Sun-Times?

kookybites

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:07:41 -0600

From the article: "It also baffles me to no end that we waste energy talking about same-sex marriage." REALLY? Because in the very first sentence of your article, you tell us that you devoted a good amount of time and emotion arguing about this with your family. And it would seem to be that the purpose of your very column today is to get people to "waste energy" discussing this. Dear God, can we make the redeye just go away?