Dear Reader Editor,
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The castration of Windy City Times publisher Jeff McCourt by Michael Miner (issue 5/26/95) is one of the most unbelievable pieces of journalism I have recently read (only to be followed by the continually factless and bitchy pages of Babble). Mr. McCourt has many friends, of which I am one. Mr. McCourt is a business owner who has the right to terminate any employee’s tenure. I myself and others whom I know that own businesses have terminated employees, and we have luckily not found our way into the pages of the press. Of course the difference is that we are talking about two very high-profile leaders of our community (McCourt and [fired columnist Jon-Henri] Damski). It is not the reporting of the situation that I find trite, but the hackneyed quotes from others that Mr. Miner chose to print in his Hot Type column. It is obviously a McCourt/WCT smear campaign created for the sole enjoyment of Babble’s Richard Cooke which Mr. Miner sold out to.
With every consideration in this matter I remain sincerely,
