To the editors:
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In “The Hanania-Santos Affair” [Hot Type, November 8], Michael Miner detailed the events leading up to the dismissal of city hall reporter Ray Hanania from the Chicago Sun-Times. Specifically, Miner charged that the Sun-Times’s chief editor, Dennis Britton, axed Hanania because, in Britton’s eyes anyway, Hanania had grown too friendly with City Treasurer Miriam Santos. Given Santos’ recent high-profile dispute with the mayoral administration of Richard M. Daley over the health of the city’s municipal pension funds and her role as an overseer of them, Britton was forced to dump Hanania from the Sun-Times when allegations surfaced that Hanania might be lending some backroom support to Santos, jeopardizing his objectivity as a journalist, and his newspaper’s integrity.
Silly Michael Miner!
