Sure, this special is probably self-serving (and it launches on Giving Tuesday, in case you miss the suggestion for a donation). But they're not the first news station to promote their own work. And why shouldn't they? I'd rather see WTTW pat themselves on the back for a job well done than watch much of the garbage that passes for news on broadcast and cable nowadays.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robservations on the media beat: You won\u2019t find a more solid and reliable newsman in all of Chicago radio than John Dempsey. Now he\u2019s voluntarily stepping down as news director and afternoon news anchor at WLS 890-AM. Dempsey, 60, announced Monday he\u2019s retiring after 38 years in broadcast journalism, including the last 13 at the... 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\/27707"}],"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=27707"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27727,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27707\/revisions\/27727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}