Editor Ann Marie Lipinski says her vision for the Chicago Tribune is to be "the leading citizen of this great metropolis." This morning my assignment was to prepare a sidebar highlighting the bizarre developments in the Angelina Jolie-Billy Bob Thornton breakup. Sigh. Speaking of leading citizen, the Trib's Jim Kirk writes of his employer:

The Chicago Tribune's $35 million purchase of Chicago magazine again raised the specter of big media's influence on readers and advertisers by having one company own the area's top-selling newspaper, the top-rated radio station, a big TV station, a professional baseball team, a cable station and Internet sites--and now a city magazine.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/showcase/chi-0208070308aug07.story

How exactly is this good for Chicago? Double sigh.