How the Chicago Trib Fumbled Its Blago Scoop
What if the paper had waited just a bit longer? It was only Dec. 4, less than 24 hours before the Trib took the investigation public, that Blago ended a three-week silence about selling Obama’s senate seat. He allegedly urged his brother to have a meeting with Jesse Jackson Jr.’s people because Jackson seemed the most likely to pony up cash for the seat. The feds were royally pissed at the Trib, because they felt like they were thisclose to something bigger:
