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The Chicago Reader has either run out of news to report or has grown irresponsibly lazy. Had there been any recent developments in the 1998 case headlined in the September 5, 2003, issue [“A Drunk Police Officer, a Dead Pedestrian”], a legitimate reason could have been posited for the retelling. Release of the convicted (April 2002), settlement of the civil action (December 2002), even simply the anniversary of the tragic crash (June 1998)–there are numerous credible reasons, although some more tenuous than others, that it might merit a review in a respectable media outlet. That the Reader did not even attempt to make such a connection suggests it is transitioning from a news outlet to an erratic historical review, or that its motives for publishing the September 5 cover are ones it chooses to hide.
Heather Daniel
