Separate and Unequal
Two Chicago ballclubs, two extra-inning games, two blown saves, two losses, but the White Sox "blew a lead" while the Cubs "battled." The Sox suffered a "bullpen meltdown" while the Cubs merely "frittered away opportunities." Nah, there's no bias.
Two Chicago ballclubs, two extra-inning games, two blown saves, two losses, two headlines:
Sox Headline: "Relief proves extra painful; Sox's bullpen fails to hold lead; homer by Morneau wins it"
Cubs Headline: "Cubs' Theriot earning Piniella's confidence with clutch hitting"
Meanwhile, The New York Times — that powerhouse of sports reporting — scooped the Tribune on a story about the Tribune's all-time favorite employee, Sammy Sosa. Sosa, who plays for the Texas Rangers, is so important in the Tribune Tower that Tribune columnist Fred Mitchell attended Sosa's birthday party last year in the Dominican Republic. (No, we're not kidding. We wish we were.) Sosa is so important in the Tribune Tower that last fall the Tribune published 35 stories mentioning Sosa, but only one mentioning Derek Lee, an actual Cubs player. So, Sosa's pretty important in the Tribune Tower, but not when the story involves steroids. According to the New York Times, MLB steroids investigator Sen. George Mitchell requested Sosa's medical records to determine whether his Cubs career was artificially enhanced. Tribune missed that story, and has posted the Times' story on its website in lieu of doing any actual reporting on this terribly uncomfortable topic. So the Tribune is surprisingly thorough about covering Sammy Sosa, yet surprising lax when covering Sammy Sosa's possible steroid use.
When Senator Mitchell is done investigating Sosa, perhaps we could ask him to investigate the rest of the Tribune Company.
Two Chicago ballclubs, two extra-inning games, two blown saves, two losses, two headlines:
Sox Headline: "Relief proves extra painful; Sox's bullpen fails to hold lead; homer by Morneau wins it"
Cubs Headline: "Cubs' Theriot earning Piniella's confidence with clutch hitting"
Meanwhile, The New York Times — that powerhouse of sports reporting — scooped the Tribune on a story about the Tribune's all-time favorite employee, Sammy Sosa. Sosa, who plays for the Texas Rangers, is so important in the Tribune Tower that Tribune columnist Fred Mitchell attended Sosa's birthday party last year in the Dominican Republic. (No, we're not kidding. We wish we were.) Sosa is so important in the Tribune Tower that last fall the Tribune published 35 stories mentioning Sosa, but only one mentioning Derek Lee, an actual Cubs player. So, Sosa's pretty important in the Tribune Tower, but not when the story involves steroids. According to the New York Times, MLB steroids investigator Sen. George Mitchell requested Sosa's medical records to determine whether his Cubs career was artificially enhanced. Tribune missed that story, and has posted the Times' story on its website in lieu of doing any actual reporting on this terribly uncomfortable topic. So the Tribune is surprisingly thorough about covering Sammy Sosa, yet surprising lax when covering Sammy Sosa's possible steroid use.
When Senator Mitchell is done investigating Sosa, perhaps we could ask him to investigate the rest of the Tribune Company.
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