{"id":32214,"date":"2014-10-22T19:32:07","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T02:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thedudeabides\/?p=32214"},"modified":"2015-03-10T10:02:40","modified_gmt":"2015-03-10T17:02:40","slug":"reblogging-from-dave-mckinney-why-i-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thedudeabides\/2014\/10\/22\/reblogging-from-dave-mckinney-why-i-left\/","title":{"rendered":"Reblogging from Dave McKinney: Why I left"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><figure id=\"attachment_32219\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32219\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-32219\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dave McKinney via RobertFeder.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Today one of the finest people I ever worked with as a reporter resigned from my former employer, The Chicago Sun-Times. Dave McKinney is a gentleman and an outstanding journalist who I was honored to work with for a decade in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>Dave didn\u2019t deserve this. Journalism doesn\u2019t deserve this. I mourn the <em>Sun-Times<\/em> of bygone years. I thought you should see what\u2019s happening in too many quarters of the once great Fourth Estate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/davemckinney123.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/22\/why-i-left\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Read Dave\u2019s blog post, Why I left<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/2014\/10\/22\/sun-times-reporter-mckinney-cites-chilling-effect-in-quitting\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\">Read Robert Feder\u2019s column about Dave\u2019s resignation HERE. <\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today one of the finest people I ever worked with as a reporter resigned from my former employer, The Chicago Sun-Times. 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