I consider myself pretty progressive, but I was really disappointed in the Sun-Times' blind endorsements of union-backed challengers against incumbents with solid voting records but dared to oppose certain union-backed laws (e.g. the soda tax), and thought their primary coverage was biased in favor of J.B. Pritzker. When John Kass recently accused the news division of protecting a key members of ownership, they didn't even respond. Worst, they cut or minimized the role of some of their best people (Mark Brown for example). I used to bemoan the thought of the Tribune being the only real watchdog in town - now I'm just kind of melancholy about it. I still subscribe to Sundays and the digital version, but I don't read as much as I did even just a few years ago.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robservations on the media beat: Thousands of words were written and spoken last week about the departure of the Chicago Tribune from Tribune Tower. But none resonated as much as this tweet by City Hall reporter Gregory Pratt: \u201cI know the @chicagotribune is not Tribune Tower. It's the staff and its readers. But the fact... 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\/18306"}],"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=18306"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18327,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18306\/revisions\/18327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}