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It's So Cute When Newspapers Fight Over The Cubs

The Chicago Tribune hates the Chicago Sun-Times, and vice versa ... it's like Spy vs. Spy, only with the threat of layoffs. (For myself, it's hard to pick sides: One paper is owned by Sam Zell, the other employs Mariotti). This round goes to the Tribune, however, who secretly embedded an intern into the Sun-Times' video contest to save the Wrigley Field name, and won the whole thing. Boy was the Sun-Times mad when they found out.

The Chicago Sun-Times announced earlier today that Katie Hamilton, a 22-year-old college student, won its "Zell No" video contest. The newspaper says her entry "chastises [Tribune CEO Sam] Zell for pondering the sale of Wrigley Field's naming rights." What the paper didn't seem to realize was that Hamilton is an intern at the Chicago Tribune. Yes, that Tribune. The one that Zell owns.

The Tribune was doing quite a bit of crowing Wednesday night over their shenanigans, forgetting that they are still owned by Zell, who could convert the entire operation into a meat processing plant on the slightest whim.

Anyway, below is a submission I liked better. And I'm sure it would have won if the youngest kid's guitar had been plugged in.

Trib Takes Sun Times' Prize [Chicago Tribune]
Chicago Tribune Claims Win In Chicago Sun-Times Video Contest [USA Today]

2:20 PM on Fri Mar 21 2008
By Rick
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DeepFriar at 02:34 PM on 03/21/08
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No song, no matter how well crafted, ever stopped injustice.
Yeah "We Are the World", I'm looking at you
Windier E. Megatons at 02:35 PM on 03/21/08
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This whole thing is just getting kind of pathetic out here.
DennyCrane at 02:37 PM on 03/21/08
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Isiah was wondering where he can pick up a copy of the Sunt-Times.
KoSuKe Fuk-U at 02:41 PM on 03/21/08
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The best solution is to have a petition with over five million signatures, then throw it away and beat Sam Zell's skull in with a metal baseball bat.
Trenton Makes The... at 03:10 PM on 03/21/08
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Remember when Siskel & Ebert met buying their respective papers at the newstand. Those were the days...
CIALIS COOPER at 03:17 PM on 03/21/08
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@Trenton Makes The World Takes: Does this prove that the Tribune may cause cancer?
Matt at 03:39 PM on 03/21/08
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The whole idea of infiltration is subversion. What was the point of entering the contest as a spy if you didn't do anything awesome in the video or with the prize money?
You know what would have been awesome? If they said "Thank you, Sun-Times for this prize money. We would like to share it with the person that financed this video. Then the big leather chair turns around and it is Sam Zell! Then Sam Zell sets the prize money on fire and lights a cigar with it!
Come on people! Lets get diabolical!
Laser Guided at 05:10 PM on 03/21/08
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My dad forced me to be in a video like the second one when they renamed the hoosier dome the "RCA" dome.
J-No at 05:32 PM on 03/21/08
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Connectedness Index: 279

Will,
All these negative and mocking stories are starting to make me think you don't like the Cubs.

J-No
rdldr1 at 09:51 PM on 03/21/08
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Sam Zell = every Sox fan's dream, every Cubs fan's nightmare.

We are going to run him out of Chicago if he mistampers with the Cubs.