\"Tribune Voices\" and John Kass's relocation into it is an idea whose time has come. These days, it's important for legitimate news operations to put a clear wall between straight news reporting and opinion journalism. Kass, Eric Zorn, Mary Schmich, and other columnists have always been opinion writers, and never should have been in the straight news section. So, this change is fine and dandy by me as a newspaper fan and journalist-turned-novelist. I don't read Kass because I find him tiresome \u2014 \"na!\" beer-can chicken, the Sox, and soccer were interesting the first hundred times he wrote about them. After that, they cloy. So I didn't see the Kass column on George Soros. I have no idea if it was Jew-bashing or not. But I can say that anyone who goes Full Soros is silly. Right-wingers drag Soros into almost every political discussion as if he's Dr. Evil. He's not. He's a billionaire liberal who is Jewish and spends money getting Democrats elected. So what? Sheldon Adelson is a billionaire right-winger who is Jewish and spends money getting Republicans elected. But nobody drags him into every political discussion. That Soros is a regular target of scorn and Adelson is not is troubling. But, no matter. Kass has not been cancelled, culturally or otherwise, and the Guild enjoys the same First Amendment freedom to speak its mind that he does. So Kass should go back to \"na!\" and I will go back to not caring about him.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the few bright spots in an otherwise bleak year for Chicago media has been watching Brandis Friedman's star continue to rise on \"Chicago Tonight,\"\u00a0the flagship news program of WTTW-Channel 11. Friedman, who's been a correspondent for the Window to the World Communications station since 2013, has emerged in recent months as the face... 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\/26410"}],"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=26410"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26435,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26410\/revisions\/26435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}