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- A complex ecosystem
I wasn’t paying much attention to the car radio until I heard this:
I imagine Sisyphus happy. I imagine Chicago journalists so happy they kiss the ground Ryan and Blagojevich and Vrdolyak and Medrano (I’m leaving out a few names, maybe hundreds) walk on. If in the 40-some years I’ve been a journalist in Chicago journalism hasn’t made a dent in our city’s political corruption, neither has corruption made a dent in our journalism. Corruption and the war on corruption are the city’s yin and yang; their duality is the air we breathe, the reason so many journalists arrive here and never want to leave.
I thought about the clash between the wheeler-dealers and crusaders of Chicago—how there’s less fear and loathing to it than meets the eye. Did you know these hostiles sometimes fraternize? We’ll leave Novak and Fusco out of it (they’re pretty relentless), but here’s a video I’ve posted before—of John Kass and Rahm Emanuel getting along with disconcerting ease.
Reese said doing that tempts him. But I’m sure he didn’t mean what he said.
