On the anniversary of the deadly Charlie Hebdo shootings in Paris, Evanston’s City Newsstand recounts how it got hold of the French satirical magazine’s first post-attack edition.
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Rauner, Tribune—make a deal!
Here’s an idea: State government and the paper should swap homes.
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Art imitates life—badly—in The Good Wife’s riff on photographer Sally Mann
The CBS drama tackled an art scandal, minus the media attention.
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Does ‘objective’ reporting distort the truth?
Recent instances of social injustice—like Eric Garner’s death—highlight the pitfalls of blind objectivity in the media.
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Everything is wonderful in the world of Everything Is Terrible!
Everything Is Terrible! is collaborating with the likes of MTV and Fox, but its core mission—to be as weird as possible—holds true.
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Public opinion survey offers shocking evidence that it’s better to get news from more than one source
In a New York Times op-ed piece at odds with its own illustration, columnist Charles Blow cites a dubious study of news venues.
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What really happened in Paris, Illinois?
With a pardon at stake, two wrongful convictions in a double murder case get the reverse spin.
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During school-closing vote, Mayor Emanuel is heard but not seen
Rahm made himself scarce as his education aides finalized the plan to shutter 50 schools.
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Rick Kogan might be sentimental—just don’t call him a sentimentalist
Rick Kogan might be sentimental—just don’t call him a sentimentalist.
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A short defense of TL;DR, or Desperately seeking e-newsstands
As long as there isn’t one newspaper for the Web, we’ll be skimming just to find what we want to read. That’s where TL;DR helps.
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Giving away: a bad-luck jacket
Near-vintage Issey Miyake jacket with karma waiting for brave soul to claim it
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Best headline of the day: the Reader is not laying off staffers
I figured I’d lead with the good news
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Leopold ‘Lee’ Froehlich, the editor
People Issue: Leopold ‘Lee’ Froehlich, managing editor of Playboy
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Thomas Friedman puts on Rahm-colored glasses
The New York Times columnist pens a love letter to Rahm.