Claim: Chicagoans won’t accept an MTV version of its alt-weekly

Chicago Reader | New York Times | Romenesko Letters
A city whose sports fans have steadfastly refused to do the Wave won’t embrace a “Chicago Reader Lite,” says Gary Dretzka. He suggests the alt-weekly rehire John Conroy “in a heart beat” — David Carr just wrote about him — add a “killer restaurant critic” and a movie critic with the “same profile as previous writers.” || Read Dretzka’s letters to Romenesko from over the years.