No one can claim to be current on Chicago news without listening to WBBM Newsradio 780 at least twice a day. The station's editors, writers and anchors pack more new information into 10 minutes (even with commercials) than 10 minutes with any other electronic or print news product in town.<\/em><\/p>\nEric Zorn:<\/strong> I call bullshit on this claim. Spend 10 minutes with the Tribune website or the Sun-Times website or Crain's or the Daily Herald's . . . and you'll know far more about what's going on locally nationally and internationally than you will in a random 10-minute \u2014 or even 30 minute \u2014 listen to WBBM-AM. Not to throw shade on WBBM \u2014 it does a fine job within the confines of the format, which not only includes commercials but traffic reports at least 90 percent of which are ALWAYS irrelevant to an individual listener. But come on.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robservations on the media beat: It\u2019s over and out for the Chicago Jewish Star after 27 years of publication. Billed as Chicago\u2019s oldest independent Jewish newspaper, the Skokie-based biweekly cited \u201can industry-wide decline in advertising revenues\u201d for shutting down the family-run operation Friday. Winner of six Peter Lisagor Awards for excellence in journalism, the paper... 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\/17954"}],"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=17954"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17966,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17954\/revisions\/17966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}