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[ksmith]

Only Chicago-area readers can address this, I know, but was WGN (both TV 9 and the AM station) always Fox-lite, or have they taken a hard turn to the right over the past couple of years? I've reached the point where I really wish they weren't the station of choice for the Cubs and Hawks, because I want to stop supporting them.

I know it's all the Tribune company, and the Trib is a conservative paper. But the on-air filtering, out of line opinions by newsreaders, and opinionation of their radio personalities just seem to have gotten worse over the last year or two. Or maybe I just wasn't attuned to it before.

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[coalboy.livejournal.com]

I hadn't heard those broadcasts! oh, bleep! And the Trib has announced the editors have decided to endorse Obama, the first time the paper has endorsed a Democrat for President since it was founded, to be on Sunday's editorial page. And I think you're right, it is more obvious now.

I haven't listened to Spike O'Dell - I knew he was too conservative for my blood pressure over 10 years ago, & never listened to Bob Collins either. But I found Wally Phillips too conservative too. When I listened to AM radio in the morning, it was WBBM, then in later years -only- WFMT. Five minutes of news was all I could take. Of course while away in summer, I'm an NPR listener from rising to sleep, too far north to hear Radio Marvelous. I -could- hear WGN there but don't.