. . . which some or many might have missed. 

Matt Baron found the trustee’s “sustained table-pounding, finger-pointing diatribe that occupied the better part of four minutes” “deeply dismaying,” he wrote.

“The irony and hypocrisy [were] thick.” The board was working on a statement affirming “its commitment to, um, a variety of viewpoints, among other lofty aspirations.”

Lofty indeed.

He offered a “broader context.” In his more than “six years of serving on local government boards,” he had “never witnessed anything remotely resembling such a scene.”

Moreover, and more telling, as a newspaper reporter he had covered

hundreds of local government meetings—including some that were wildly dysfunctional—the only close analogy would be the three-ring circus that was the Town of Cicero’s public proceedings. And even by that measure, Trustee Buchanan established a new low for conduct.

I concur, after 40 years of watching boards and meetings, often taking notes, especially…

Publisher Dan Haley’s pitch for his new business model:

“Oak Park would not be the same place if the Wednesday Journal had not been here the past 40 years.”

Had never asked myself that question, an interesting one.

In any case, the issue is joined.

“To most people in our situation, I would say face the reality that our model is broken,” [Haley] said. “There was a process I went through of saying, ‘It’s not your fault, Dan. The world changed around you, and now you have to adapt to it.

Instead:

“Accept the reality, have faith in your community that they will see the value in the work you’ve done over time. … You have a foundation of readership and advertisers, you are in great shape. Be proud of the asset that has been built, and  take that asset in a new way.”

That’s sales talk, and where would…

And that’s why she got threatening emails.

I googled “buchanan oak park shut up” and NOT UNTIL the 11th Google page, ten sightings each page, did I find NO COVERAGE of Trustee Buchanan’s ordering three fellow trustees, including the mayor, to stay out of an important discussion — while apparently unbeknownst to her, SOMEONE WAS VIDEOING THE WHOLE THING.

But it’s all about the other trustee she told to shut up because he’s a white man! A sordid story from once the biggest village in the world!

Says Alan Dershowitz.

“I think Jeff Zucker should be fired,” determined Dershowitz of CNN’s president. “He has destroyed CNN. He has made it impossible for people to hear two sides of a view or any side of a view other than Jeff Zucker’s view, and that’s not the way television should operate.”

Too bad.