Letter to the Editor

Today (Friday Feb 2) The Chicago Tribune printed a letter to the editor that read something like this:

If an actual colt went up against an actual bear, the bear would win.

That was it. It took me several moments to recognize the letter for what it was, a sly commentary on the content of the Trib's editorials on the page next to the letters to the editors. The writer was attempting to mimic the wisdom and integrity of the Tribune's editorial staff.

It used to be that in the rest of the newspaper you found the facts, in the editorials you found the truth. Now you find Opinions. That's how the Tribune titles their editorials: Opinions. And whose opinions? Two right wing ladies
so lightweight they must carry rocks in their purses to keep from blowing away on their way to the Tower, one black lady for local color, a "historian" from the Hoover institute who features his middle name so prominently he may be an aspiring assassin, and that poisonous toad from the New York Times.

And they wonder why readership is declining. I am a loyal (daily) reader. When they lose me they can turn out the lights, and they're almost there.