Most of my 12 readers know I have been calling Chicago’s DNC mouthpiece of record (the Chicago Sun-Times) The Obama News for some time now. It is reflective of how the paper has acted as a cheerleader for his campaign from the start, assigning him a personal columnist while the Washington political columnist writes about how she wishes she could follow him into the locker room at their swanky city health club. The day after his “A More Perfect Union” speech the Obama mouthpiece used two full pages of their content-lacking publication to print the full text of the speech. If the editors examine their rapidly sinking circulation numbers they may want to look at their decision to forgo news and become a full time Klaxon for the “post-racial” candidate.

There is nothing wrong with a paper being partisan in their editorial content, it has been a standard for decades but the all out hero-worship that merges into the news content as well is a little much. On that note I ran into a great blog from Tom Roeser that satirizes the Sun-Times perfectly in a manner that Saturday Night Live has been able to capture nationally. He addresses the myriad of columnists and editors writing about Barack Obama, leaving little space for actual news.

Oh how I long for the days of real journalism.