I can’t help but be annoyed with some of my fellow Chicagoans.
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This morning Chicagoist ran an article about one of the Red Eye’s columnists. In a nutshell, they don’t like his sexist attitude or contradicting articles.
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The real fun part is in the comment section where everybody bashes the Red Eye and it’s readers.
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A handful of people said they automatically deduct 10-20 IQ points from anybody they see reading it.
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Hey Ska, welcome to Chicagoist bro! I’ve always only deducted at least ten points from any one I see reading it, but thanks for raising the bar, 20 points it is!
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And I like how every one who reads the Stupid Eye lies about the reason why they read it,sudoku/cross work puzzels my A$$
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Like “Not_another_username” said “I wouldn’t pick up a Red Eye if there was a hundred dollar bill attached to it.”
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First of all, that really shows maturity and intelligence on their part. Secondly, most of the articles in the Red Eye are AP articles found in every paper – every where! Aside from the few columnists, every story in there in an AP article. So they should be shunning anyone who reads the Trib, Sun-Times, etc. Thirdly, it’s a free newspaper. It sits by the doors by the L and people grab it because they need something to pass the time in the slow zones. I think it’s ridiculous that now I’m not only judged because I’m: a woman, white, short, canadian, a student, young, casually dressed, but now I’m judged because I flip through the Red Eye in the mornings? Jesus.
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I’ve said that Bostonians are snarky and New Yorkers are rude (no offense – these opinions were based on first impressions and don’t reflect on any of the bloggers here) but I swear Chicagoans are some of the most ignorant people in the country. We have this holier-than-thou attitude that just doesn’t fly with me. Just because you read “A Tale of Two Cities” and fill out the New York Times crossword puzzle in pen doesn’t make you better than me. You probably still pronounce “library” as “liberry.”
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This morning there was a cute woman on the Ye Old Blue line. I got on with a homeless dude accompanied by his unheartwarming smell and a dirty large sack containing all of his earthly possibles.
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Two seats were left, one next to the cutie dressed like a banker, the other next to a grungy woman reading a book. The cute women looked at me with pleading eyes that said please sit next to me so I want have to sit next to the homeless smelly man. I looked, saw a Red \’96Stupid- Eye in her hands, and passed her right by to set next to the women reading the book, it was The Brothers Karamazov! Right before I got off the train I complemented her on her selection and she smiled.
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Boycott The Stupid Eye and shun all who read it!
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If someone doesn’t want to sit by me on the train because I’m holding a Red Eye, fine! Stand for all I care. Gives me a spot to put my bag.
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And for Chicagoist to say the Red Eye needs to be held to a higher standard…well I have to agree with one of the comments I read:
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It gives us a chuckle when we read that Chicagoist is calling to hold Red Eye to a higher standard.
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Remember Chicagoist, just because you give the source of a story a “HotLink” doesn’t make you a journalist.
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Stop being idiots.
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they’re laying off a bunch of editorial positions at the Sun-Times and they’re raising the prices of the Chicago Tribune. RedEye is one of the few papers that is actually turning a profit, so that newsroom must be doing something right.
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