Steve Huntley spent 30 distinguished years in Chicago journalism with the

Chicago Sun times. When I was with the other paper, back when journalism was

journalism, when the papers competed for news, when we were driven to compete,

and sometimes we'd knock down a scoop if the other side got it first. Back

when the Sun times in the Tribune covered something called news and tried

to keep opinion out of the news sections and tried to keep opinion out of the

feature sections and tried to keep opinion out of the garden sections and out

of the sports sections. Back when diverse opinion was welcomed, not canceled and

trampled by the stampede of the woke, which forced Barry Weiss to leave the

New York Times and forced me to leave the paper. Steve Huntley and I worked on

opposite sides of the street then, back when the Tribune the Sun times actually

covered Bond Court, for example, and the decisions of the judges and the

prosecutors to separate the predators from the law abiding. And now neither

paper does a real good job of it, perhaps the answers to the questions they

know they'd find, bother them, and they don't want to hear about it. Only

CWB Chicago does that important job now and well. Understanding all this while

language is critical, understanding how language has been twisted in a 2022

version of George Orwell's new speak is also critical. Can a free

republic survive the onslaught of new speak, which erases heretical thoughts, as

newspapers become silos of opinion, your silo, my silo, and we're separate and

we're not engaged in discussion in the public square because there is no

public square. We'll ask him today on this edition of the Chicago way podcast.

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