rosenthal on smithe and daley

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Posted by photex on May 10, 2011 at 04:17:40:

Having climbed into bed with outgoing Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley and an area furniture chain, some local TV news people were scrambling to avoid being seen in a figurative walk of shame.

At least a few of the reporters and anchors shown paying tribute to Daley in an ad for Walter E. Smithe Furniture + Design requested they be cut from the spot after Time Out Chicago blogger Robert Feder's Monday post lambasting the journalists for the dual transgressions of appearing in a commercial and sucking up to the city's longtime chief executive.

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: Having climbed into bed with outgoing Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley and an area furniture chain, some local TV news people were scrambling to avoid being seen in a figurative walk of shame. : At least a few of the reporters and anchors shown paying tribute to Daley in an ad for Walter E. Smithe Furniture + Design requested they be cut from the spot after Time Out Chicago blogger Robert Feder's Monday post lambasting the journalists for the dual transgressions of appearing in a commercial and sucking up to the city's longtime chief executive.

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