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this is hilarious. the online pickpocket that is chicagoist all of a sudden is a journalism profesor/media critic. this criticism would have some credibility if it came from someone who actually does...

so the -ist sees a myspace post and 'reports' it as news? who did you call to confirm the death? police? morgue? hospitals? friends? "we thought [he] died in December"? "we thought"? you're able to r...

magilla wrote: "why no story on the 1,000 cases of becks that spilled all over the stevenson this morning?" because the -ist likely couldn't find the 'story' to copy and paste from a MSM source. it'l...

Dean? What about Bulldog Drummond? As for him being grabbed up by a 'large local station,' there is no such thing [as large or local] anymore. the only really local stations besides wls are 'bbm and ...

bring back hannah....

So? This happened in Urbana! It may as well have taken place in Indianapolis. Besides, the kids were found almost as quickly as they were taken. The -ist should maybe just stick to copying and pastin...

can't believe that the cops let someone get close enough to take a photo of them without threatening arrest, or worse, barking, 'call news affairs!'...

i don't know what i'm more excited about -- the cool shirt or the dropping of the third person in this posting. a white sox fan in the white house...awesome. ...

has chuck moved to the north side? ...

of course, if it takes place in an italian restaurant, there has to mobsters, right? geez. ...

Ward: That was not a story. Not a story, not a story, not a story, since she is NOT a reporter. Yes, it is garbage that was rehashed from the Defender and not investigated at all, and somebody deemed ...

hold the outrage -- it was intentional. http://cbs2chicago.com/local/chase.bank.ads.2.626463.html ...

The 'Bomb Date Center'? Geez, who hasn't had a couple of those, eh? ...

"Still waiting for all of the reverends and community leaders to condemn this killing and thank the CPD for tracking the killers down. Hmmm...." *** Still don't see the similarities between chicagoi...

chuck: it only took about ten minutes for this thread to devolve into name-calling, (of tunney and daley and other commentors), homophobic comments, unfounded statements about the business, and the sc...