CHICAGO CARLESS

I am in love. Suddenly, astonishingly, sickeningly so. Know that first and the rest of this post goes down a lot easier for the less romantically inclined among you.

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(Photo: Taller than the original, but not necessarily loftier. Credit: PostPunkKitchen.)

On Friday, I opined about the deliberate lack of editorial direction on the Commentary page of the Chicago Sun-Times. My criticism stemmed from comments made by Cheryl Reed, the Sun-Times editor in charge of the page, at a Publicity Club of Chicago luncheon last Wednesday. The gist of those comments: that the opinions that appear in the editorial pages of the Sun-Times–most notably, the newspaper’s own editorials–are only those that Sun-Times readers would agree with.

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[UPDATE: (Dec. 9)--Sun-Times Commentary page editor Cheryl Reed and Yours Truly, er, remember things differently in the comment thread of this post...]

Someone else in the audience asked the question, but I was certainly thinking it. A lot of us were. What’s the use of an editorial page when the editor admits they only write what their readers want to hear?

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(Photo: What a difference a year makes…)

A little more than a year ago, when I wondered where my writing–and my life–would take me, I couldn’t have guessed what the following twelve months would have in store. Today, I return to Chicago Carless from a self-imposed month-long hiatus awed by the changes 365 days can bring.

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