Watching the Tribune go downhill has been sad. As a subscriber of 40-plus years, I now regularly wonder why I continue. Previous owners have already nearly gutted the reporting staff. The paper is filled with articles from other papers and the AP. Once in a while an investigative report looking into shady government is productive, but too often the good reporters remaining are wasted on other crusades while our local and state governments continue their shenanigans with impunity. The quality of the writing and editing, once exemplary, is now noticeably inferior to papers like the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. The stable of one-note columnists and critics is tedious. That leaves the op-ed pages as the only interesting part. Mary [Schmich] is right. History isn\u2019t waiting.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robservations on the media beat: In the eons since WGN-Channel 9 first raised the curtain on \"Family Classics\" in 1962, the iconic movie series has had only three hosts \u2014 Frazier Thomas, Roy Leonard and Dean Richards. Until now. Steve Sanders, veteran news anchor at \"Chicago's Very Own,\" was pressed into service at the last... 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\/23753"}],"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=23753"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23768,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23753\/revisions\/23768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}