Black Watch: Today’s Top Stories

It’s all starting to run together. Either Eddie Greenspan shone yesterday (the Sun) or he was a dud (the Star, The Daily Mail). Either, on balance, he was more up than down (the Globe and the Post), or more down than up (somebody, somewhere must have said that—oh yeah, the Times of London). At any rate, along with the usual rehashing of facts most of us digested ages ago (non-competes, opera singers at “expensive” dinners in New York, bombastic e-mails from Black), this morning’s deluge includes a missive from lefty shaman Naomi Klein, published simultaneously in The Nation and The Guardian, telling us that rather than a case of corporate corruption, what’s going on in Chicago is actually class warfare (and she doesn’t mean that in a negative sense). On the other side of the ideological equation, The Wall Street Journal weighed back in, not about the trial per se, but rather to tell their northern neighbours—us—how weird we are for being so interested in a subject not being covered wall to wall in their paper. To which we say, “Guilty as charged, Your Honour!”