Author Archives: John K. Wilson

wilson.qxd Harold Henderson, as usual, writes from ignorance (City File, July 17) when he attacks an on-line newsletter that blames guns in Philadelphia for handgun violence. “Now why is it that guns–which aren’t any more common in Philadelphia–are at fault?” asks our astute Reader clipping critic. I know obnoxious rhetorical questions from the “Dept. of […]

Dear Editor: Michael Miner seems to have gotten a promotion from media critic to professional psychic, since he is confident (Letters, April 11) that I am more worried than I appear about a libel suit over Chicago Ink’s article by Chris Geovanis. But leaving aside Miner’s misunderstanding of libel law (exactly how can telling the […]

wilson.qxd Dear editor: Michael Miner’s attack on the Chicago Ink article by Chris Geovanis (Hot Type, April 4) is an example of what’s wrong with the style of journalism practiced by “alternative” newspapers like the Reader. Miner is mad at Geovanis for printing the comments of Charles Kyle, a consultant to the Chicago Public Schools […]