'Sun-Times': Cancel That Left Turn (won't be going liberal)

[Newsjock]

Source: Editor & Publisher

Conrad Black, who led the thieving band of executives that put the Chicago Sun-Times pretty far down the road to ruin, had just been convicted in a Chicago federal courthouse, but Publisher John Cruickshank had something more urgent to talk about Friday afternoon in the tabloid's offices.

"We're not going to start being a Democratic paper or a liberal paper or a conservative paper or an ideological paper -- we're an independent paper," he said. "We're not going to be a small L liberal paper. We're not going to bind ourselves to a party or ideology in anything."

On Tuesday, the Sun-Times launched a redesigned commentary section with this ringing declaration by new Editorial Page Editor Cheryl L. Reed: "We are returning to our liberal, working-class roots, a position that pits us squarely opposite the Chicago Tribune -- that Republican, George Bush-touting paper over on moneyed Michigan Avenue. We're rethinking our stance on several issues, including the most pressing issue facing Americans today: Bush's war in Iraq."

... But its all a misunderstanding, the paper says now.

In a column in Sunday's editions, Reed writes, "the word liberal carries a lot of baggage, so I'm discovering."

She added she had "no intention of driving this paper down some partisan path."

Read more: http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003611781

[More Than A Feeling]

1. Darn.

The Sun Times almost became relevant.

[Nite Owl]

2. They should just write the

truth. The truth is on our side.

[Kurovski]

4. You got it.

That's it right there.

[fujiyama]

5. As Colbert put it

Truth has a liberal bias.

[Peace Patriot]

3. Interesting controversy.

:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

[melody]

6. Yet another clueless conservative

:eyes:

[aquart]

7. What an utter coward.

[last_texas_dem]

8. Well, based on the article

I can't tell whether they're truly not planning on moving their editorial commentary more to the left, or whether they're just running away from calling it the "l" word. But I'll hope for the best.

[AndyTiedye]

9. They Got a Phone Call and They Are All Back onto the Reservation Now

The media has been allowed some pretense of independence during this off year,
but that is ending soon as the election year approaches and all must sing the praises of the Repigiglickins.

[xchrom]

10. more fodder for a new michael moore film. -- just a suggestion. n/t

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

15. "Media 911."

:think:

[Nikki Stone1]

16. Or "Operation Pravda"

..

[xchrom]

17. great title!

[Red Zelda]

11. The number of ...

money sucking, corporate asshats in newspapers is astonishing.
Dead Tree Media is Over

[UpInArms]

12. "the word liberal carries a lot of baggage, so I'm discovering."

these are the very people that allowed the word "liberal" to be demonized.

And I already called BS on the NoFacts paper turning liberal.

Note for Cheryl:

Liberals have convictions. You are just a shill. Fuck off.

[LiberalFighter]

13. If they print the truth we Liberals wouldn't complain about newspapers being controlled

by big business or being slanted towards Republican views.

[ElboRuum]

14. I don't need a liberal paper.

I need one that has facts and objective reporting.

Oh, wait, that's a liberal concept these days. OK, maybe I do need a liberal paper. I guess it's OK if they don't come right out and say it.

[Toucano]

21. That's well put.

Truth = treason
Facts = liberal

[zehnkatzen]

18. Cowards.

What more can one say?

Cowards.

[roseBudd]

19. They should have used the words "average middle class working people"

[silverojo]

20. I figured it was too good to be true.

:cry:

[monmouth]

22. Can't wait for a reponse from Fr. Andrew Greeley on this one...lol.