High Five: CTA blunders, bulls thunder, Boeing's wonder, and Paris Hilton's number | Main | Live Earth Webcast works well, draws big High Five: Merc to merge, iPods to borrow, and a very friendly TV reporter Fast takes on five items in the news, fresh every weekday: The Board of Trade and the Merc strike a deal and will merge, reducing by one the number of Chicago institutions where I have no idea what goes on. The new iPods will have some of the features of the iPhone, an analyst says. Would that be the cool touch-screen part or the high-price-tag and really-slow-Internet-service part?
Miami Heat basketball player Antoine Walker is robbed in his Chicago home. Walker tried to list his jumpshot among the items that were stolen, but police said the forward was unable to prove he had ever possessed a jumpshot. A rival news station has footage of WMAQ-Ch.
5 reporter Amy Jacobson wearing a bathing-suit top and with her children at the pool of Craig Stebic, whose wife's disappearance Jacobson has been reporting on. Journalism watchdogs can be outraged about this, or we can just be grateful that it wasn't Walter Jacobson. Major League Baseball will launch a Web site featuring video clips of classic games, but not before it messes the whole thing up by getting comedian Dane Cook involved.
Comedian? In the sense that you've actually laughed at something he said? Obligatory disclaimer: The items above, although rooted in fact, may contain elements of fancy, fantasy or wishful thinking that render them not, strictly speaking, true.
At least not yet. Comments or better jokes are welcome below.
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