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Chicago fetes John Madigan, friend of pols, scourge of peers...
...some of the solidest citizens of Illinois, Dec. 7 was something more, much more, than Pearl Harbor Day. It was John Madigan Day, duly proclaimed by both Governor James Thompson and Chicago Mayor Michael Bilandic and marked by more than 700 leading Chicagoans at a party to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the great man's entry into journalism. For some of Madigan's colleagues in the press, however, it was another day that will live in infamy...
...Madigan, 59, is a press critic. Unlike his print-bound counterparts in other cities, he chastises the profession via the rather quaint medium of radio-for 2½ minutes five days a week over WBBM, the CBS-owned station for which he doubles as political editor. In addition, Madigan is closely tied to the still clanking municipal machine of the late Mayor Richard Daley, a rare alliance for a newsman in these post-Watergate days of pol bashing. Indeed, while other reporters stood outside in the cold, Madigan was allowed to broadcast Daley's funeral live from inside...
Such clubhouse connections make Madigan an object of contempt among many peers, who, nonetheless, would do well to heed him. "John's criticism is first-rate," says John Calloway, news director of the local public television station, "but the question is whether his coziness destroys his credibility elsewhere...
Small Change at 1, 4:25, 7:55, and Elvira Madigan...