The Trib's Long History Of Overdoing It
Written by wrigleyville   
Monday, 15 March 2010
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Apparently it isn't a new thing for the Chicago Tribune to go after an athlete it deems unacceptably acceptable:

The Chicago Tribune waged a choleric campaign against holding the next Clay fight in Chicago; the newspaper's attitude seemed to be that thousands of impressionable young Chicagoans would go over to the Viet Cong if Cassius were to be allowed to engage in fisticuffs in that sensitive city. Amplified by the newspaper (on one day it ran eleven items about Clay), the noise became a din, the drumbeats of a holy war. TV and radio commentators, little old ladies from Champaign-Urbana, bookmakers and parish priests, military strategists at the Pentagon and brave dogfeet wading across the ricefields of Vietnam, all joined in a get-Cassius clamor.

Sounds like a recent day or two at Tribune Tower.



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