A front-page story in Friday’s Tribune about Rahm Emanuel’s fall from political grace makes a small, serious mistake.
Staff columnists, on the other hand, are paid to speak for themselves and should be held personally accountable for what they say. When they aren’t it’s usually because their own names carry less weight than their papers’. As for guest writers, the views of a Columbia professor would carry almost no weight at all in a Chicago story on our mayor’s tribulations. If only the Times had said that.
