'Hog Butcher' Deserved Better
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'Hog Butcher' Disparaged
Tracee Hamilton's column on Chicago's failed bid for the 2016 Olympics was crass, snide and vindictive ["Too Much Burden for City of Big Shoulders," Sports, Oct. 3].
Examples: As one explanation for the setback, she listed "failure to rig the election . . . you need to play to your strengths." In the same vein, she listed Al Capone and the great American poet Carl Sandburg as members of the Chicago delegation. She used Chicago's "nicknames" (her word) such as "City of the Big Shoulders" pejoratively -- of course, not mentioning that these terms come from Sandburg's famous poem "Chicago."
Were these digs supposed to be funny? Evidently, Hamilton doesn't like Chicago, so she got off all the cheap cliches about the city. It makes one wonder if she's ever been there. This column was unworthy of The Post.
-- Allan Wendt
Washington
Return of an Entertainer
I doubt that your readers needed Howard Kurtz's 43-paragraph story on Don Imus's return to television on the struggling Fox Business Network ["He's Back, Hat in Hand," Style, Oct. 5]. I'm for redemption and comebacks in show business. But I don't look to Imus for insights on what's happening in the world. He isn't part of the established media on which people should rely to stay informed. He's the "entertainment" part of a ratings-driven "info-entertainment" culture.
The problem is that many people don't distinguish between the news media and show business. A college-educated person told me recently she watches Comedy Central for news "because it's more fun than watching Katie Couric or Brian Williams or reading papers and news magazines."
