The broadcast world is losing a great teacher. Harold Lee Rush was my first instructor when I attended Columbia College Chicago. In fact, our class visited Bob Wall and Harold just weeks before this situation broke. We had a front row seat into the events (that were able to be discussed) that led to Bob's downfall. Harold kept it real and continued to be focused on his class, while all of this swirled around his morning show. And oh the stories he could tell about life, radio and his career! I learned much from Harold and consider him a valued mentor and great friend! Congrats on getting to slow down . . . just a bit.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robservations on the media beat: After 49 years as the city's premier alternative weekly, the Chicago Reader is downsizing to a biweekly publication schedule. Reader publisher Tracy Baim cited a 90 percent drop in advertising revenue due to COVID-19 shutdowns for the cutback. \u201cThis was not an easy decision,\u201d Baim said. \u201cWe wanted to focus... 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\/25937"}],"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=25937"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25953,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25937\/revisions\/25953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}