Sun-Times digs up Royko ... sorta

[HanSenSE]

Sun-Times to revisit classic Mike Royko columns

 

[Slacker]

Sun-Times to revisit classic Mike Royko columns

Royko himself would call them attention ***** vultures and then tell 'em to let him rest in peace, for chrissakes.

 

[Fredrick]

Royko himself would call them attention ***** vultures and then tell 'em to let him rest in peace, for chrissakes.

Yes he would and Royko couldn't work in today's environment. He'd call newspapers out on all this bull**** and they wouldn't run his columns and he'd quit. Case closed.

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

We have a paper here that has been re-running a dead columnist's lifestyles contributions. For the last five years!

 

[I Should Coco]

Not to mention how many newspapers still run Peanuts on the comics page. Schulz has been dead nearly two decades!

 

[steveu]

It's Still Popular, Charlie Brown. (winks)

 

[justgladtobehere]

Not to mention how many newspapers still run Peanuts on the comics page. Schulz has been dead nearly two decades!

Comics have a history of being passed down through artists and writers.

NPR has Car Talk episodes running and one of the brothers died years ago and stopped producing shows even before that.

Get Mike Barnicle to write some Royko columns. He has some experience doing it.

 

[ChrisLong]

It’s always weird when a pre-written obit has the byline of a person who also is dead.

 

[HanSenSE]

How about a "Godfather" remake with an Abe Vigoda hologram. Keep the man alive.

 

[Bronco77]

Yes he would and Royko couldn't work in today's environment.

I can only imagine what his reaction would have been to this:

 

[Slacker]

I can only imagine what his reaction would have been to this:

tronc1: "We'll work with all the local markets to harness the power of our local journalism, feed it into a funnel, and then optimize it so that we reach the biggest global audience possible."

tronc2: "Also, machine learning!"

ROYKO: "You punks finish your milk and get outta here, and don't you ever ****in' come back to the Billy Goat."

 

[Deskgrunt50]

It’s always weird when a pre-written obit has the byline of a person who also is dead.

Biggest one in recent memory, at least for me, is Bill Gallo's byline on the Muhammad Ali obit. Gallo died in 2011. Ali in 2016.

 

[Bronco77]

ROYKO: "You punks finish your milk and get outta here, and don't you ever ****in' come back to the Billy Goat."

Having worked with Anne Vasquez, the "co-star" of that Tronc video, I can state unequivocally that she wouldn't have survived five seconds in the Billy Goat of Royko's era, before it became a tourist trap.

 

[Slacker]

Having worked with Anne Vasquez, the "co-star" of that Tronc video, I can state unequivocally that she wouldn't have survived five seconds in the Billy Goat of Royko's era, before it became a tourist trap.

Good joint for talkin' softball, if Royko was there ...

 

[LongTimeListener]

Are they going to run the one where he says the problem with Mexico is all the Mexicans? It would be appropriate given the times.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

I thoroughly enjoyed the one he wrote towards the end of his career - and life - that was entirely in Ebonics.

 

[Fredrick]

Can you imagine? Royko in this era? He'd have gotten laid off and told everybody to bleep off on the way out the door. You think Fredrick hates the suits? Royko is the definition of anti-suit and is somebody the current execs would despise and want fired. Cause they don't care about the byline; they care about the internet views. Royko would mean too much money to the suits in New York.

 

[Slacker]

Can you imagine? Royko in this era? He'd have gotten laid off and told everybody to bleep off on the way out the door. You think Fredrick hates the suits? Royko is the definition of anti-suit and is somebody the current execs would despise and want fired. Cause they don't care about the byline; they care about the internet views. Royko would mean too much money to the suits in New York.

Royko would be the last to get laid off, now or then. He sold more papers than anyone else, and it probably wasn't close.

 

[Alma]

Twitter would have eaten Royko alive. As much as he offended Frank Sinatra, could you imagine the offense he’d give to some glass-jawed celeb today?

Royko took jabs at conservatives and liberals. He would have been a cool kids pariah for the latter.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

Are we talking established columnist Royko or brand new starting out columnist Royko? They'll never permit columnists to flourish again like Royko. The minute he stepped out onto a ledge - whether it be referring to the new owner as "the alien," pissing off Sinatra, or insulting an entire group of people - the suits would demand an apology and possibly suspend him, which I can't see sitting well.