Hello All,

This was in the Chicago Sun-Times on Wednesday. It looks a lot like how things go at USM; Ebert could easily be Noel Polk and Conrad Black could be . . . Well, you can figure it out, because I can't bring myself to type the name or some clever derivation thereof.

"Earlier this month during contract negotiations at the Chicago Sun-Times, film critic Roger Ebert sent an e-mail to Publisher John Cruickshank saying he would support his colleagues in the Chicago Newspaper Guild if they went out on strike, prompting this exchange between Ebert and Hollinger International chairman Conrad Black." 

Here's the link   http://www.suntimes.com/output/letters/cst-edt-vox27d.html

(I particularly liked "kleptocracy.")

DG