With no fear and no question out of bounds, Fran Spielman could get under the skin of every Chicago mayor she has covered. I used to love to cover city Hall press conferences just to watch her work. By asking appropriate, tough questions and being unrelenting in her follow-up probes, Fran does not stop until she has extracted an answer she can use in the paper. Fran knows her City Hall beat inside and out. She is highly respected for her unbiased reporting and feared by those breaking the law or bending ethical mores. Fran, like Mike Wallace of \"60 Minutes\" or Carol Marin from WTTW, has a reputation for toughness that precedes her. If you look through the peephole of your door and see Fran, you'd better ask yourself, \"Oh S*%t, what have I done?\" But, by then it's too late. She's got you.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robservations on the media beat: When Radio Hall of Famer John Records Landecker fills in next week for morning host Bob Sirott on WGN 720-AM, there may be a lot riding on it for both Landecker and the Nexstar Media Group news\/talk station. If all goes well, insiders said, Landecker could be in line to... 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\/26489"}],"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=26489"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26503,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26489\/revisions\/26503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}