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...five months, reporters for the paper had clandestinely operated a Chicago bar called the Mirage tavern, gathering notes on building and fire inspectors as they asked for illegal side payments. Street-wise in a machine-dominated city, Editor James Hoge had lawyers meticulously instruct his reporters in how to avoid committing entrapment. In the past, such Front Page-style enterprise has consistently won Pulitzers. As deception, it is not all that different from the confrontation theater that often gives CBS's 60 Minutes its liveliest episodes...
...spent as much time hanging around bars as they have muckraking. But not even in The Front Page did any of them ever combine both pastimes so ingeniously. Last January Sun-Times Reporter Pamela Zekman (who has shared two Pulitzer Prizes for investigative reporting) got Editor-in-Chief James Hoge's O.K. to buy and operate a bar. In May, having joined forces with the Better Government Association, a local citizens' group that works with journalists and others fighting corruption, the Sun-Times made a $5,000 down payment on a seedy tavern near...
...often resent them. "A publisher comes in and wags his finger in the air and tells you there's something wrong with your paper, and he's bringing in this expert to tell you how to straighten it out," says Chicago Daily News Editor in Chief Jim Hoge, who has generally ignored the advice Frank Magid has given his paper during its recent radical redesign. "Before you know it, the expert starts telling you which is left and which is right...
...Hogwash!" counters James Hoge, editor in chief of Chicago's Sun-Times and Daily News. "If you don't vigorously go after the story, people say you're lazy. If you do, people say you are picking on the people involved. You just have to continue to dig and print what you think is newsworthy." St. Louis Post-Dispatch Reporter Thomas Ottenad thinks reporters had no choice but to go after Lance, especially after the comptroller's report pronounced him innocent only of actual violation of law. "There were things in there that cried...
...conventions; even the keynote speech is reduced to excerpts. The Times, says Deputy Managing Editor Seymour Topping, aims to set before its readers-expert and nonexpert-a "high quality smorgasbord"; that way, presumably, the reader on the run can find enough nourishment without having to sample every dish. Jim Hoge, the Chicago Sun-Times editor, drastically cut back his paper's coverage and space on the second day of the Democratic Convention, convinced that readers and viewers have "a sensory understanding" that conventions are so unreal that "even the fights are carefully staged...