I cringed when the usually thoughtful Michael Miner described one of my former meal tickets, the soon-to-be-folded Chicago Enterprise, as “the voice of the Civic Committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago” (Hot Type, August 26).
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Not quite, Mike. Chicago Enterprise was funded by the Civic Committee, but no one who read it carefully could describe it as the mouthpiece of big business. Rather, it was “the voice of” the diverse and independent writers and photographers who filled its pages the past eight years. Journalists like Alfredo Lanier, Tom Andreoli, R. Bruce Dold, Merrill Goozner, Ed Zotti, James Krohe Jr., Patrick Barry, Ben Joravsky, Harold Henderson, Linda Lenz, Vicki Quade, Greg Hinz, David Greising, Laurie Abraham, Mark Veverka, Susan Chandler, Maria Donato, David Jackson, Bob Yovovich, Adolfo Mendez, Joanna Brown, Valerie Denney, Scott Baltic, Paul Merideth, Jon Randolph, Noel Neuburger, Alex Galindo, Janet Kalhben, and David Roeder.
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