I know, I know, we don't use that term anymore! It properly went out with burning witches and chaining mental patients. However, one look in today's Chicago media and it's pretty clear some story-makers get judged more harshly and more personally than others.

The bigger-than-life Stephens family running Rosemont made the front page. A lot funny-money deals out there making the boys in that family very very rich. But how do the press cover it...? A wink, a nudge, and a ya-gotta-give-it-to-them tribute to their just-barely-legal free enterprise...

Then there's Michael Phelps becoming the winningest Olympian. Amazing athlete, yet a few years back damned for using pot. But how does the press cover him now...? Hey, who remembers the little stuff when the guy is again winning the big stuff....