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Nothing. Then I pulled out the Saturday editorial page. Again, nothing about an endorsement. Then I hunt around on the Web site, digging through the Opinion tab and then clicking on endorsements. There I find the Obama endorsement, dated 2:33 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 17. It has yet to appear in the printed newspaper of which I am a seven-day-a-week subscriber.
Talk about burying the lede! Why am I paying all this money for subscription delivery when the editors are withholding the only suspenseful aspect of the Obama campaign for Chicagoans? They slip it into the Web site instead, where sharp-eyed New York Times reporters read it and publish it, scooping the Trib on its own endorsement. Is this the kind of news judgment we can expect from the overhauled Tribune? Yikes!
Even when it’s news that isn’t news until the Tribune actually makes it, the Tribune goes to the Web first.
