By Steve Rhodes

The top of this column will return tomorrow or over the weekend!

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New on the Beachwood today . . .
Dear FCC: Further Weakening Media-Ownership Limits Isn’t The Answer
“[T]he alleged benefits of consolidation haven’t materialized. Instead, the outcome is the same: layoffs of station staff, limited editorial independence, reduced investment in newsgathering and diminished competition for audiences and advertisers.”
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ChicagoReddit

If you lost your kids letter to Santa at the North & Clyborn red line, I got you. Since I know him I will deliver it for you. from r/chicago

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Hey folks, sorry I haven’t posted new work in a while. I’ve been busy getting ready for the Crampus Market on 12/18 (I may or may not have acquired a pink sequin tablecloth that I feel is essential to my personal brand of “6th grade girl from the late 90s”) and I’ve been working hard on holiday commissions that I can’t post yet so I don’t ruin any surprises 🤫 In the mean time, here are my top nine posts from 2018 according to likes, followed by the top nine posts according to me and what I like making. Hope to see you at Emporium Logan Square for the market on the 18th and here’s to more drawing in 2019 💕 . . . . #illustration #illustrator #womenwhodraw #topnine2018 #artistsoninstagram #chicagoartist #art #artwork #draw #instaart #instaartist #daniknight

A post shared by Dani Knight (@daniknightdraws) on Dec 13, 2018 at 7:57am PST

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ChicagoTube
Real Doctor Reacts To Chicago Med.

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BeachBook
He Helped Build An Artists’ Utopia. Now He Faces Trial For 36 Deaths There.

A remarkable – and remarkably sad – piece of work. The suffering is too much to bear.
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Amy Goodman Shows How It’s Done.

Although I would’ve shifted sooner and more strenuously into “Don’t you think Americans deserve answers?” mode. At a certain point, otherwise, it becomes performative.
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TweetWood
A sampling.
Mini-thread.

Whoa, is this true?

(Jerry Morrison is with SEIU, who endorsed Preckwinkle.) pic.twitter.com/zwwmnygVV3

— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) December 13, 2018

Just 57 minutes into our negotiation session on Tuesday, Lee Enterprises’ attorney said “I’m done with this bullshit,” and stormed out on us. He never returned and later canceled our scheduled session for today…

— Southern Illinois News Guild (@sinewsguild) December 12, 2018

Someone snuck a FOIA exemption benefiting large telecom corporations into….the Farm Bill https://t.co/CWxf3b91pI

— Robert Maguire (@RobertMaguire_) December 12, 2018

Hard to find the journalism in this brief Reuters story on clinical trial results for psoriasis drug https://t.co/P9ZOmYpQX4

— HealthNewsReview.org (@HealthNewsRevu) December 13, 2018

The ‘#TodayShow‘ team celebrates in a festive photobooth https://t.co/kpFCxGtbGp pic.twitter.com/HYucF8TQfr

— NewscastStudio (@newscaststudio) December 13, 2018

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The Beachwood McRibTipLine: Sauced.

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