Tonight's episode of The Verdict had nothing relating to the Conrad Black trial in it. So, in lief of the standard reportage on it, I point to a column in the Chicago Reader, the latest "Hot Type," in which Sam Zell is compared to Conrad Black. The section in the column devoted to this question, "Sam Zell: An Old-Fashioned Publisher?," answers (despite the fact that the two men in question took over different papers) that there is a certain similarity between the old proprietor and the new, in extravagance and in a causative similarity to William Randolph Hearst (one of Conrad Black's heroes.)
Enjoy your "Chicago homecoming," Mr. Zell, and be contented with the cheery realization that you weren't given the full-ignore treatment instead.
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