Cherie's Night Out has met exactly the same resistance. A meeting was scheduled this week between the Chicago Newspaper Guild and Sun-Times management to discuss the paper's growing reliance on outsiders to stuff the news hole with trivia. Cherie's Night Out is one example. A third is Next, a new Sunday magazine that's scheduled to debut in the Sun-Times November 19. Editor Christine Ledbetter has been shaking the trees for freelancers.
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I continue to believe that. But let the record show that the Daily Southtown , which has its own editors but is also owned by Hollinger International, endorsed Al Gore. I was going to do a column about why I was for Al Gore. Anyway, they were not inclined to do that. One thing led to another.