Tom Roeser does Rev J. Jackson Sr. up brown in this rundown (second item) on his squeezing corporate money and jobs to feather his own nest, noting along the way how Sun-Times has retreated from its onetime muckracking of The Pout, as R. calls him, to the point of giving him a column for going after Republicans.

Which, says R.,

leads [to] a news consumer question: when will the newspaper stop paying a tithe in the form of a newspaper column which is nothing more than DNC boilerplate for which Jackson gets the sum of $150 weekly . . .

It’s a good business decision by S-T editors, because it gets Rev. JJ off their back and fits in with their Dem Party attachment, says R., but does it serve the consumer?