{"id":12002,"date":"2016-07-25T06:00:08","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T11:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=12002"},"modified":"2016-07-25T06:09:20","modified_gmt":"2016-07-25T11:09:20","slug":"robservations-dear-amy-where-are-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2016\/07\/25\/robservations-dear-amy-where-are-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Robservations: Dear Amy, where are you?"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Amy<\/a>

<\/a> Amy Dickinson (Photo: Dede Hatch)<\/p><\/div>\n

Robservations on the media beat:<\/p>\n

Amy Dickinson,<\/strong> whose \u201cAsk Amy\u201d<\/a> advice column has been on hiatus from the Chicago Tribune <\/a>since July 14, said Sunday she\u2019ll be back in the paper \u201csome time this week.\u201d She declined to discuss the reason for her absence, which had her legion of fans buzzing. \u201cThe only upside to hiatus is that it is nice to be missed,\u201d she said. \u201cI'm hearing from lots of readers, too.\u201d Dickinson succeeded the late Eppie Lederer<\/strong> (aka Ann Landers<\/strong>) at the Tribune in 2003. Her column is widely syndicated across the country. Dickinson's latest book, a followup to the bestselling memoir The Mighty Queens of Freeville: A Mother, A Daughter and the People Who Raised Them,<\/em> will be published in March by Hachette Book Group.<\/p>\n

\"Rahm<\/a>

Rahm Emanuel<\/p><\/div>\n

Don't expect to find the high-powered guest list for Michael Ferro\u2019s\u00a0<\/strong>50th birthday party<\/a> in the Tribune\u2019s Chicago Inc. <\/a>column, but one name that would have been at the top was Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel.<\/strong> Ferro, the media mogul who turned Tribune Publishing into tronc,<\/a> threw the bash for himself and buddies John Canning<\/strong> and John Bucksbaum<\/strong> Thursday night at Chicago Cut. According to someone who was there, the mayor arrived late and was seated next to guest of honor Ferro. Tronc spokesman Dennis\u00a0<\/strong>Culloton<\/b>\u00a0called the event \u201ca personal gathering of friends,\u201d telling Crain\u2019s Chicago Business:<\/a> \u201cI don't understand why this is a news story.\"<\/p>\n

\"Anthony<\/a>

Anthony Ponce<\/p><\/div>\n

With hugs for his colleagues and words of love for Chicago, Anthony Ponce<\/strong> signed off Sunday as weekend morning anchor at NBC-owned WMAQ-Channel 5. <\/a>\u201cIt really has been a true honor to deliver you the news from this studio as part of this great team we have here,\u201d he told viewers. \u201cThank you all so much for your support. I love you guys. . . . I love you, Chicago. Love you.\u201d After nine years at the station, Ponce secured a\u00a0release <\/a>from his contract to become a full-time driver for Lyft<\/a> and interview passengers for a podcast series called \u201cBackseat Rider,\u201d <\/a>which he plans to debut in August. Until a replacement for Ponce is named, Michelle Relerford<\/strong> and Susan Carlson<\/strong> will anchor Saturday and Sunday mornings, according to Frank Whittaker,<\/strong> station manager and vice president of news at NBC 5.<\/p>\n

\"Roger<\/a>

Roger Ebert<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cLife Itself,\u201d director Steve James\u2019s<\/strong> documentary about the late Chicago film critic Roger Ebert,<\/strong> received two Emmy Award nominations<\/a> last week \u2014 one for best documentary and one for outstanding editing. \u201cCNN Films broadcast \u2018Life Itself\u2019 all across the country, and there is not a week that goes past when we don't receive letters at our website, RogerEbert.com, <\/a>telling us what the film and Roger meant to them,\u201d wife Chaz Ebert<\/strong> wrote on her blog.<\/a> \u201cBut what touches me even more are the comments about how Roger's words about empathy and putting one's self in the shoes of a person of another race, religion, age, physical ability, economic status or sexual identity are more important today than when he first uttered them.\u201d Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic of the Sun-Times for 46 years, Ebert died in 2013 at 70. The 37th annual News and Documentary Emmys will be presented September 21 in New York.<\/p>\n

\"WGN\"<\/a>

WGN<\/p><\/div>\n

Ready for two hours of \u201cTwo and a Half Men\u201d every night? That\u2019s what\u2019s in store for viewers of WGN-Channel 9<\/a> this fall when the Tribune Media flagship station drops its affiliation<\/a> with The CW Network and goes independent. Syndicated reruns of the CBS sitcom starring Charlie Sheen<\/strong> and Ashton Kutcher,<\/strong> which now air from 6 to 7 p.m., will be added to WGN\u2019s lineup from 7 to 8 p.m., starting September 19. Back-to-back reruns of \u201cLast Man Standing,\u201d the ABC sitcom starring Tim Allen,<\/strong> will air from 8 to 9 p.m., leading into \u201cWGN News at Nine.\u201d Not impressed? Tribune Broadcasting bosses say they have bigger plans in the works for primetime, but aren\u2019t ready to roll them out yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Robservations on the media beat: Amy Dickinson, whose \u201cAsk Amy\u201d advice column has been on hiatus from the Chicago Tribune since July 14, said Sunday she\u2019ll be back in the paper \u201csome time this week.\u201d She declined to discuss the reason for her absence, which had her legion of fans buzzing. \u201cThe only upside to... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12002"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12002"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12014,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12002\/revisions\/12014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}