Bernie Lincicome back in Chicago — and looking for a writing home
Chicago Reader |
Jan. 25, 2010 7:45 a.m.
Bernie Lincicome is back in Chicago, hoping to write something for somebody, Michael Miner writes, adding, "I suggest he write for his generation. One voice is missing from new media — the voice of the old sage who thinks new media is ridiculous. After 16 years as a sports columnist in Chicago, Lincicome and the Tribune parted ways in 2000 and he took his talents to Denver. Lincicome wrote a column for the Rocky Mountain News until that paper folded last February. Then he blogged." Lincicome tells Miner, "When I started doing it," he says, "everybody said ‘Oh, great, we can still find you.’ I asked them, ‘Are you going to pay me?’ I could never figure out a way to get them to pay for it." This, in the view of Lincicome — and many another senior journalist put out to pasture — constitutes a serious deficiency in new media.
