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June 7, 2011 12:41 AM
Audit Notes: Sun-Times Daley Probe, CanadaCare Myths, Off the News
The Chicago Sun-Times has a dandy investigation today reporting that the son of former Mayor Richard Daley made skads of money when the city signed a deal for wifi service in the city's airports. To make matters worse, the Daley administration denied for years that Patrick Daley had any financial stake in the deal. Unfortunately for them, the Sun-Times's Tim...
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October 29, 2012 06:50 AM
Jenny McCarthy as a Sun-Times columnist?
Science writers are skeptical, though McCarthy won't promote a fake link between vaccines and autism there
In her column, Minority Reports, Jennifer Vanasco analyzes how the mainstream media covers social minorities. The Chicago Sun-Times created controversy this month by hiring Jenny McCarthy—an actress-model, author, and activist who promotes the discredited idea that vaccines cause autism—to blog online five days a week and write a weekly print advice column about sex, love, dating, and parenting. (The USA...
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December 22, 2011 01:01 PM
New Investment Company Buys Chicago Sun Times
A digitally focused company has purchased an old media standard. Sun-Times Media Holdings, owner of The Chicago Sun-Times and over forty other media ventures, has been sold to a newly formed investment group called Wrapports LLC. The announcement was made late Wednesday evening, and while details of the arrangement have not yet been revealed, it’s been reported that the price...
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