Documenting Bias in Tribune-Media Coverage of Chicago Baseball and Chicago Life
Labels: Chicago Tribune, Daily Herald, Different Spins
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"Journalists must avoid any conflict of interest or the appearance of conflict." -- from the American Society of Newspaper Editors Code of Ethics
"Journalists should avoid conflicts of interest, real or perceived, remain free of associations and activities that may compromise integrity or damage credibility, disclose unavoidable conflicts... deny favored treatment to advertisers and special interests and resist their pressure to influence news coverage." -- from the Society of Professional Journalists Code of Ethics
"A Newspaper should have no friends." -- Joseph Pulitzer
"Tribune has great resources, but those resources aren’t doing much public good.... That’s why we’d like to see the company sell itself out of the newspaper business." -- The Columbia Journalism Review
"How can you compete with the Tribune? I mean, give me a break. They own the Cubs, they own WGN Radio, TV and CLTV. Come on. You think you are going to get any publicity for the White Sox? You can't. Let's be realistic." -- Mayor Richard M. Daley
"It was written out of an awareness that multitudes live among us who share the horrors but not the marvels of our split-level bedlam. As well as from a natural resentment toward a press whose complacency could not be dented. For no man can make a dent in emptiness." -- Nelson Algren
This site is dedicated to the memory of former Tribune Public Editor N. Don Wycliff. Wherever you are, Don, we know you're still looking the other way.
Documenting bias in Tribune-owned Media: The Chicago Tribune, WGN-TV, WGN-Radio, Chicago Magazine, Hoy, CLTV, Comcast Sportsnet, chicagosports.com, Redeye, Metromix, et cetera, ad nauseum.