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The Tribune Company is going all out to promote Kevin Pang's "The Cheeseburger Show." And the show is charming, btw, with the first episode visiting Top Notch Beefburger. Pang does know his classics. He's hosting a Tweetup Friday. Sorry, an "old-fashioned Tweetup" (that's so last autumn) where they're buying you cheeseburgers from 8-10 p.m.
You're on your own for the beer, which isn't such a bad thing. The Cheeseburger tweetup dovetails nicely with Beer School head Phil Kuhl's "DarkLord Eve" party that same night. From 7 p.m. - 1 a.m. Kuhl and the Sheffield's staff will be tapping some choice selections from Three Floyds, Dogfish Head, Surly and New Belgium, including a cask — not a keg, a cask — of Three Floyd's Robert the Bruce ale.
Hate to be the one cleaning up that mess.
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"The Tribune Company is going all out to promote Kevin Pang's "The Cheeseburger Show." ...
as Mother Trib lays off even more people today.
Who needs hard news coverage in Chicago when you have beer and meat, and dozens of people to give their (slightly varying) opinions on such things?
In Pang's defense, he's much more worried about his colleagues right now than cheeseburgers (per his Twitter)...
And having worked for a couple papers, while the whole cheeseburger show seems silly compared to "real" news, it's clearly a ploy to attract younger readers. The truth is, we can get hard news a ton of places. But the Trib has cheeseburgers. :P
In Pang's defense, he is a very talented writer, and this out of his hands. Just making a point about wildly misplaced priorities that are leaving this city with a surplus of food and drink writers and bloggers and far too few real reporters capable of writing news about zoning, taxes, corruption, budgets, etc.. Yeah, it's obvious, but it really pisses me off.
"The truth is, we can get hard news a ton of places."
Not as many as a few years ago, and not as many places as "news" about food and drink. Solid hard news efforts are much more expensive and difficult than offering one's views about greasy meat and beer. Even the suburban papers are losing good folks vital to keeping the public informed about more important issues than cheeseburgers.
"Even the suburban papers are losing good folks vital to keeping the public informed about more important issues than cheeseburgers."
I know -- I used to work for suburban paper(s).
I agree that there are more important issues. But let me tell you, newspaper publishers are wildly out of touch with reality.
"Even the suburban papers are losing good folks vital to keeping the public informed about more important issues than cheeseburgers."
I know -- I used to work for suburban paper(s).
I agree that there are more important issues. But let me tell you, newspaper publishers are wildly out of touch with reality.
Where are we getting our local focus hard news? The Reader? Investigative journalism, chasing a long story, takes time and money. Easier to crap out some podcast about fried foods and call it a day.
By the way, this jag going a fake "Me no speak english" bit to start his show made me nauseous. Let's start the show with some stereotypes and cultural illiteracy! All Asian people are clearly immigrants! They can't be born here.
Let's put Lester Bangs in blackface, that'll get some hits!
Agree 100%.
Hell, maybe we worked for the same publisher at some point.
No worries about Pang, but not sure where we are getting all that hard news coverage. It is so much easier to get food/beer commentary, isn't it?
I may have misspoken -- it's easy to get hard national news. It's harder to get hard local news, you're right. Especially in the 'burbs.
Cool enough.
Yeah, it's about to get harder, with cuts to Daily Herald, Southtown, the local weeklies and other local dailies (Elgin, for instance--I think they had some cuts). Not sure Northwest Herald/Kane County Chronicle has cut anyone, but I would think so.
NWH and KCC have been bleeding people for a couple years. KCC may be about as small as they can go, really. (And the Elgin paper is owned by the Sun-Times, so yeah, the whole STNG is in jeopardy.) I have a friend who now works for Gatehouse, and they've been laying off people too...
Ben Joravsky's about the only one keeping it real afaik. But I gave up on browsing the Trib and Sun-Times some time ago.
Sun Times still does some good work--one of its reporters has been driving the Dunnings coverage, and the watchdog feature still is good.
Trib did that great series on city zoning a few months ago.
Good stuff is still getting done, though the frequency is decreasing.
As for Ben J, his colleague Dumke also deserves praise.
I urge you to keep browsing. Don't surrender just yet.
You're right, I was being a bit flippant. Actually just now thinking of the trib guy who exposed the story about the suburb that's been drinking toxic water for like 20 years.
Can I bring my cat?
The comment section of the Trib is an excellent place to get the pulse of what's going on in the hearts and minds of residents of Lombard.
Hence the reason we need to close Lombard off. Quarantine. Lockdown. Nuke it from orbit. Only way to be sure.