open letter to Chicago Tribune mgmt

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Wednesday November 03, 2010 · 5:04 AM PDT

2010/11/03 · 05:04

The Chicago Tribune was responsible for at least 2 key election results last night: Kirk's senate win, and Dold's victory here in the 10th district. Both results were close enough that your paper's biased reporting and inaccurate editorials likely were enough to give the races to the Republican candidates.

I wonder how many of you believe that a newspaper, not through accurate reporting but through thinly veiled political campaigning, should play such a role. I certainly don't, and many of the thousands who've canceled their subscriptions in recent years probably agree with me. I'm finally canceling my subscription too. I can not, in good conscience, continue to support an organization which so actively contributes to the misinformation among voters.

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Wednesday September 22, 2010 · 2:21 PM PDT

2010/09/22 · 14:21

Today I attended a fundraising luncheon for Alexi Giannoulias where Gloria Steinem was the featured speaker. She told us how her first involvement in an election was to help Jack Kennedy become a senator, and she also spoke about her involvement in the Harriet Woods v. John Danforth race in MO in the 80s. Woods lost a close race for want of $100K to combat false attacks in the last weeks of the campaign. After Danforth won, he became a mentor to Clarence Thomas and made sure Thomas was in the right places and met the right people. Eventually this took Thomas, as we all know, to the Supreme Court, where he's been part of many hideous decisions including the fateful Florida vote count decision, Bush v. Gore, which gave us President W.

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open letter to Chicago Tribune mgmt

Gloria Steinem: For Want of a Nail