A reader asks, in reference to today’s piece on Obama’s relationship with the Chicago media, didn’t Fox News break the story of Jeremiah Wright? Indeed, Sean Hannity interviewed Wright back on March 1. But it was ABC News’ playing of the sermon videos — particularly “God d*** America” and “US of KKK A” — that really launched Obama’s relationship with Wright into a full-blown crisis.

Having said that, it illustrates that point of the sentence further — that two of the most damaging stories regarding Obama, Wright and Ayers, involved well-known Windy City figures and yet were broken by national news organizations instead of the local press…