Welcome to Illinois

Caught playing the political game, so they attack about the coverage:

• In a nine-page letter sent to the Chicago Tribune today, a group of University of Illinois law professors criticized the newspaper's ongoing series of stories about how political clout has influenced admission decisions at the state's flagship university.
  
  The 16 professors who signed the letter say the Tribune's coverage has been biased and question whether the "Clout Goes to College" series has merited the frequent front-page attention it has received.
  
  [...] "University administrators make easy targets. They are after all academics -- mathematicians, philosophers, business scholars -- who must attempt to navigate the choppy waters of Illinois state politics. They themselves have no clout, and can be attacked in the press with relative impunity."

Hell, we're just glad the Tribune found something to hammer the Machine for. The Sun Times has Hired Truck, the Trib has U of I interwoven with Clout Street. It's something they should have been doing years ago.