The Second City doesn’t heart CL
July 31, 2007 at 8:51 am by Wayne GarciaLast week we reported how our parent company, Creative Loafing Inc., purchased two of the biggest names in the alt-weekly industry, the Chicago Reader and the Washington City Paper. I already reported on the immediate fallout, but wanted to add that while the Washington audience and staff seems (for the most part) to be coping with the big change in ownership, the good people of Chicago are freaking the fuck out. Check out their comments on Michael Miner’s “News Bites” blog.
Our growing newspaper chain is alternately portrayed as competent or dullard, progressive or bumbling, saving the Reader or just plain evil and intent on burying good journalism. Tampa comes off worse. One commenter, however, calls The Political Whore “not bad at all.” Huzzah!
