Chicago Tribune Reporter Wishes for a Hurricane and Botches Her Apology
And you thought newspapers were hurting now?!
Meet Kristen McQueary.
She is a reporter for the Chicago Tribune who may have a problem with analogies–a condition revealed by a recent story in which she expressed her desire for the city of Chicago to get ravaged by its own version of Hurricane Katrina.
She argues that Katrina was a good thing for the Crescent City because it “gave a great American city a rebirth…” and “that’s what it took to hit the reset button in New Orleans. Chaos. Tragedy. Heartbreak.”
If you, dear reader, had been around for the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, you probably wouldn’t be writing a story about how the city needs another deadly blaze in order to hit the “reset button” in the heart of Daley Center.
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