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I’ve been wrestling with Phil Rosenthal’s recent insight that April 1 is a day that’s turning into a season. The Tribune‘s media columnist pointed to Time Out Chicago‘s recent ten pages of blithe coverage of that magazine’s sale to Donald Trump, deceptive nonsense helped along by being published a week before readers would be looking for it. Rosenthal is concerned. He pondered, “For the media, whose credibility is already under attack frequently enough, indulging in April Foolery can be a self-inflicted wound.”
Sorry to say, here at the Reader it’s hard to laugh just now. In our last issue, Mike Sula told the riveting tale of an exclusive new restaurant opening today in the Carter H. Harrison Water Intake Crib. Proprietor Albert D’Angelo promised a “transgressive” menu and hinted to Sula, “Ducks and geese aren’t the only animals that you can force-feed for big livers.”
