WGN as bad as ESPN...No soap in Wrigley restrooms...Comments on Trib/Cub reporting bias

• Chicago Tribune's Dan McGrath article said Tribune's ownership of the Cubs had no bearing on their reporting. Following are 4 of the best comments:

1. "The Tribune is like Radio Tokyo during the war and will continue it's propaganda coverage of the Cubs.

• Cub games are media events and a far cry from baseball.

• We have our own ESPN right here in Chicago it is called

• WGN and the Tribune.

• Jaluit (08/22/2009, 10:27 PM )...****

2. "The Trib turned Wrigley Field into a dump, their writers stayed mum until the concrete nets went up. The Trib held back tickets for some of the best seats from public sale, and scalped them from a storefront they leased 3 blocks from the park, the rival newspaper reported that.

• The soap dispensers in the Wrigley rest rooms are routinely
• out of soap, but you never read any Trib columnist protesting that for the attention of the city's health inspectors.

Pee on your hands flubbers, this Bud's for you (and the filth which surrounds you)....Tribune company is, and always has been... morally bankrupt.

• Sorryano (08/23/2009, 7:17 AM )...****

3. You undercut your own argument. You say there was no pressure, but then you say

• that Andy McPhail called you into his office to discuss an article about Jacque Jones.

Do you think the NY Times sports writer is being called into Steinbrenner's office to discuss an article critical of A-Rod? I don't think so.

• kmc666 (08/23/2009, 9:39 AM )...****

4. ...The big conflict of interest that didn't get covered, and that fans were too stupid to recognize, was between the good of the baseball club and the corporation. Guess who always won that battle folks? That's the story the Trib didn't cover.

• The Cubs have been getting less than market value for their broadcast rights
• since Trib/WGN bought the club.

• The corporate bookkeeping shell game meant greater shareholder value and less revenue for the Cubs. This has been a story for 28 years.

We only see something in the Tribune--from Rosenbloom--now. We're about to learn just how bad an owner the Tribune has been.

• Deferred salaries, deferred maintenance, deferred decisions--it's a story that somehow,

the Tribune missed until now.

• knezovich (08/23/2009, 3:55 PM )"...****

Comments to Chicago Tribune article, "Perception of bias toward Chicago Cubs will not be missed; Misconceptions of fans always a concern to Tribune Sports Editors," 8/23/09, via Poynter.org/Romenesko

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