Sun-Times digs up Royko ... sorta

Sun-Times to revisit classic Mike Royko columns

 

Royko himself would call them attention whore vultures and then tell 'em to let him rest in peace, for chrissakes.

 

Yes he would and Royko couldn't work in today's environment. He'd call newspapers out on all this bullshit and they wouldn't run his columns and he'd quit. Case closed.

 

We have a paper here that has been re-running a dead columnist's lifestyles contributions. For the last five years!

 

Not to mention how many newspapers still run Peanuts on the comics page. Schulz has been dead nearly two decades!

 

It's Still Popular, Charlie Brown. (winks)

 

Comics have a history of being passed down through artists and writers.

NPR has Car Talk episodes running and one of the brothers died years ago and stopped producing shows even before that.

Get Mike Barnicle to write some Royko columns. He has some experience doing it.

 

It’s always weird when a pre-written obit has the byline of a person who also is dead.

 

How about a "Godfather" remake with an Abe Vigoda hologram. Keep the man alive.

 

I can only imagine what his reaction would have been to this:

 

tronc1: "We'll work with all the local markets to harness the power of our local journalism, feed it into a funnel, and then optimize it so that we reach the biggest global audience possible."

tronc2: "Also, machine learning!"

ROYKO: "You punks finish your milk and get outta here, and don't you ever fuckin' come back to the Billy Goat."

 

Biggest one in recent memory, at least for me, is Bill Gallo's byline on the Muhammad Ali obit. Gallo died in 2011. Ali in 2016.