Both major Chicago newspapers -- The Chicago Sun-Times and the Chicago Tribune -- have shirked off their responsibility to the public as journalists and instead added themselves to the bully pulpit of anti-teacher Mayor Rahm Emanuel.
From Substance News:
On August 24, 2012, the Chicago Sun-Times published a front page story that would have embarrassed a rookie fiction writer in some sophomore high school class. "The Closer," as the front page headline screamed, is just the most dramatic example of the genre now pioneering by the Rahm Emanuel fans in the Sun-Times newsroom. Based solely on a "City Hall Insider..." as a source, the Sun-Times story unfolds a melodramatic scenario that, once again, puts Rahm and the center of a Hollywood script, and ignored most of the facts.
Later that night in an effort to not be outdone by the the second-tiered Chicago major newspaper, the Chicago Sun-Times publishes an article titled
"Union leaders have Chicago teachers wanting more."
Substance reports:
Meanwhile, the second-tier newspaper in The Second City was purchased by some Hedge Fund friends of Rahm. Immediately, the Chicago Sun-Times begin acting as if Columbia University were about to award a Pulitzer Prize for the daily tabloid that published an adoring photograph of the city's mayor on its front page the most times. And the reporters at the Sun-Times, although still protected by a flimsy union contract, began writing less independently than their brothers and sisters a half mile away at the anti-union Chicago Tribune (where empty desks in the huge newsroom are reminders to those left with jobs that they could be dumped tomorrow if they offend the gods that rule Chicago).
Many CTU members have scratched their heads as the Sun-Times is known as the more liberal counterpart to the conservative Tribune, but this short video will show you that in the world of Chicago backroom deals, money makes everyone a union-buster. "Democrats" like Rahm Emanuel have gone so far as to work with the Tea Party to bust the union and privatize education.