{"id":199609,"date":"2007-07-11T11:15:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-11T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/11\/chicago-sun-times-looks-to-redefine-itself-as-liberal-working-class-paper\/"},"modified":"2007-07-11T11:15:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-11T16:15:00","slug":"chicago-sun-times-looks-to-redefine-itself-as-liberal-working-class-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/11\/chicago-sun-times-looks-to-redefine-itself-as-liberal-working-class-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Chicago Sun-Times&#8217; Looks to Redefine Itself as &#8216;Liberal, Working-Class&#8217; Paper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know what this means, but I pray that this means that liberal will be the new black.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.editorandpublisher.com\/eandp\/news\/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003609413\">&#8216;<span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Chicago Sun-Times&#8217; Looks to Redefine Itself as &#8216;Liberal, Working-Class&#8217; Paper<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">By Mark Fitzgerald<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Published: July 10, 2007 12:29 PM ET<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">CHICAGO The Chicago Sun-Times is turning left.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">The tabloid that shifted toward political conservatism under the brief ownership of Rupert Murdoch more than two decades ago now says that it is &#8216;rethinking our stance on several issues, including the most pressing issue facing Americans today: Bush&#8217;s war in Iraq.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Under marching orders from Publisher John Cruickshank and Editor in Chief Michael Cooke, new Editorial Page Editor Cheryl L. Reed introduced a new Commentary section Tuesday with a promise to turn the tabloid back into the liberal-leaning paper it was for decades before the Reagan administration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">&#8230;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know what this means, but I pray that this means that liberal will be the new black. &#8216;Chicago Sun-Times&#8217; Looks to Redefine Itself as &#8216;Liberal, Working-Class&#8217; Paper By Mark Fitzgerald Published: July 10, 2007 12:29 PM ET CHICAGO The Chicago Sun-Times is turning left. The tabloid that shifted toward political conservatism under the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1064,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199609"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}