If the managing editor of the Alton Telegraph had gotten back to me with his explanation a day before he did, my post Tuesday about his newspaper and the Illinois Policy Institute would have been less critical. In fact, it would have been what this one will be—sympathetic.
Fortunately, his e-mail didn’t end there.
He’d put his finger on something important. Berg might be carrying water for IPI, but he writes a good column. Woodside, with no budget to spend on either, was right to choose “flawed, strong” over “safe and weak.” Maybe IPI’s ideological and political opponents should fight fire with fire and add freebie columnists to their own payrolls. There’s a market for them.
