Glomming On: Attack of the Electronic Media
“At some point Channel Seven with Linda Yu and Joel Daly interviewed me.”
But for all the attention everybody paid Cathy Stachura, the Spunky Wife Back Home, the Sun-Times’s Leslie Baldacci was always special. “She was a real sweetheart,” says Stachura. “I think that’s why the articles were so nice. She called every couple of days and got a chance to meet my kids and she put down what they were saying in the right words. I’d be very surprised if she didn’t win some type of award for that series.”
There were families galore. But journalism is like a smorgasbord. When there are too many choices, what looks most delicious is often what the person ahead of you is having.
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“They asked if they could come to where I work,” she remembers. “I said, sure, no problem.”
“Awwww,” said Phil Walters. (We’d called him at Channel Five and made him answer for his conduct.) He didn’t know she was there. He didn’t know who she was. “This was one of those cases,” he said, “where you walk in at 2 or 2:30 on the evening shift and they say, ‘You’re going here.’ It turned out to be a nice story. I had no idea where they got it.”
