If I’m reading this right, and I’d like to think that I am, former DMN head honcho Jeremy Halbreich lied to Wick when he said he wasn’t interested in being the top dog at the Chicago newspaper group. I know the titles are different, but we’re talking about the same thing, right? Not that I blame him. I don’t know who would be honest in that situation.
Update: This story says someone else was named president, so he didn’t technically lie. But he’s still calling the shots. Which means … what? Wick, where are you? Tell me what to think.
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Neither of those links are working.
Sorry — first link works, but not the second.
So Halbreich will be a local person running the local paper in Chicago by spending three days a week there. That’s the assertion. He’ll be the Tom Joyner of daily newspapers with less funk and personality.
Sorry. Should work now.
He’s a decent and honest guy. Forward-thinking, too.
Doesn’t everyone in the news business lie?
It isn’t a wonder people are going online and leaving the old media behind.
Exactly Buzzsaw. When you read it online you KNOW it is true.
Hey Buzzsaw, I believe EVERYTHNG I read online, too.
I believe I can fly.
Lucky, lucky Sun Times. He is a jewel.
He may be a jewel. But I don’t think there’s a Messiah out there who can miraculously return newspapers to their Golden Era, when Halbreich worked at The News. It’s going to take a lot of creative thinking and hard work…I think the type of creative thinking needed is more likely to come from some Bill Gates-type kid working in his garage then from aging Boomers, born on third base, who grew up in the golden era of newspapers. Just my two cents.
Hey Buzzsaw! What makes you think that those who disseminate the news online are any more honest than those in print? Where do you think the online news comes from, anyway? Do you really think it wasn’t printed somewhere first and then appropriated for online use?