Bear down on something else, please!!

http://www.chicagotribune.com/

http://www.nbc5.com/index.html

If you were to read a major newspaper in Chicago, the headlines will be all about the Bears. If you were to turn on a network affiliate, the images would be from Miami. Super Bowl fever is running high in Chicago and our major news organizations are capitalizing on it.

I'm not from Chicago, so maybe I just don't get it. But ever since the Bears made the playoffs its story after story on this team. Is this news? How many people need to analyze Rex Grossman? He's not that good, OK, we get it!

This makes me question which news stories they possibly ignored in January. Did they put on page 6 a story that needed page 1? They might have. It's a good thing the Northwestern News Report is around!

I compare this type of coverage to the story we watched last week on the car chase. Every news organization is doing it, and in the race for audience, every paper and station in the city needs to tell as many stories as possible.

I know this town is crazy for its Bears. I'm crazy about my Gators, so I understand the passion. I just feel that with alderman elections approaching, deadly weather happening this weekend and new legislation moving through City Hall, I think the media should be a bit more balanced.

Once again thank goodness for the Northwestern News Report. We rock!!

JK