A Day in the Life of Tribune Bias

The Cubs are for sale. Tribune employees benefit directly from the sale, so there's no time like the present for the Tribune to promote its favorite team, and today's Tribune nicely illustrates how they're doing it.

First, there's a page-one article about cheating, as in Bill Belichick. On the jump, the article describes George Halas both allegedly cheating and worrying about cheating. But then the article makes the leap to baseball, with its oft-stolen signs. Not only does it target Bill Veeck
and scoreboard allegations from Old Comiskey (Isn't Wrigley the park with a guy in the scoreboard?), but it drags up former Sox coach Joe Nossek and runs a picture of him beside the article. I guess that's because he "was the master of stealing signs" as stated in the photo caption.

Really? Are those the only cheaters we can come up with in Chicago baseball? Even if the Tribune was too investigatively impotent (or disinterested) to prove the allegations that former Tribune employee Sammy Sosa's Cubbie career came out of a syringe, how do they talk about cheating and overlook that corked bat?

No, the Tribune has better use for its precious Cubbies.

The Cubs show up in two other unlikely areas of the paper. In the Q-Section, an article on "One Lively Cemetary" discusses people personalizing the gravestones of their dearly departed. Wouldn't ya know it, someone chiseled a Cubs logo into a headstone. How quaint.

Meanwhile, in the Real Estate section, there's an article about "Condo buyers benefitting as more sellers willing to make a deal." So how do they work their precious Cubbies in? Not so subliminally. One photo accompanying the article has a happy condo owner not only posing in his starter condo, but sporting a Cub hat while doing so.

Ah yes: cheaters on the South Side, only the eternally loyal and prosperous on the North Side. And like Sosa's bat, your Tribune is full of [cork].

Thanks to Lone Ranger for writing this post.