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Shocking.

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Any "race-baiting" was actually done by Pritzker in his phone call with Blago. I don't consider the cartoon racist, but it was probably a overly harsh. I think Pritzker is more of a buffoon than a racist. Steinberg wrote what I would call a fair column on the matter inside that issue. And it should be noted that Steinberg's return to The Reader was at Konkol's behest.

I think you have two issues here. One, it seems like Konkol was hated by the staff. Whether political viewpoints played a part there or if Konkol was just an asshole, I don't know.

The other likely issue is that the unions that helped finance the Eisendrath's purchase of the Sun-Times support Pritzker and likely flipped over that cartoon on the cover.

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The last couple of stories we have seen pulling back the curtain on reporters and writers has revealed them to be a difficult group to work with that will publicly flip on their bosses and each other. I can only imagine what its like working with the staff at the Reader where each of them thinks he is part Andy Warhol and part Woodward and Bernstein.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
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