Trib Wins the Tape Race
But what buried the Sun-Times from the get go–despite that paper’s flashes of superiority as the trial wore on–wasn’t anything tony at all. The Tribune simply ran the (bowdlerized) transcript of the Heard-Reynolds tapes a day before the Sun-Times did. Sometimes a day is like a century.
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Regular readers of the Tribune’s “Corrections and clarifications” might conclude the paper’s editors endlessly suffer the torments of the damned, wrestling nightly with their souls over venial sins and wringing their hands in contrition every morning.
The Tribune’s account of the matter began with a mention of Deadheads who’d commandeered the revolving restaurant of the Days Inn on Lake Shore Drive. It then shifted to the night that “ended for Paul Wertheimer before it really began.”
Such as those mug shots of Wertheimer and Yellen. Wertheimer told me, “They put up these pictures in Soldier Field–not discreetly, but for all to see–of two people who had done nothing wrong, in an act to intimidate us and possibly harm us. Obviously we were considered undesirables.”
Locally or nationally? I asked.
