- Jim Frost / Sun-Times Media
- Media columnist Robert Feder, shown in 2002, when he was with the Sun-Times, now writes for the Tribune.
On Wednesday, media blogger Robert Feder made an important announcement. Chicago’s foremost itinerant reporter—he’s bunked with the Sun-Times, Chicago Public Media, Time Out Chicago, and the Tribune—Feder announced that as of next Tuesday, his RobertFeder.com “will become part of the exclusive, premium digitalPLUS tier of ChicagoTribune.com.”
The thump is softer now, but the breakfast table remains my ideal place to read a newspaper. (That and the CTA—where I’m usually the only passenger in the car holding one.) The bang for my subscription buck has changed and changed some more over the years—as the papers launched websites and posted editorial content in shifting configurations of free and otherwise. But the basic terms are the same: I pay my money and read the news.
Patner can’t afford that. Who can? Has progress outsmarted itself? It’s given us so many years of reading everybody everywhere for a song that it’s made itself unaffordable.
