Just when you thought newspaper fortunes couldn’t sink any lower comes word that Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich demanded the Tribune Company fire editorial writers as a quid pro quo for state assistance in the sale of Wrigley Field. It’s got to put a spring in the step of scribes at the Chicago Tribune, whose owners just filed for bankruptcy, that at least the governor read the paper and thought it mattered.
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