Day: April 13, 2003

RedEye sucks

/ Kevin B. O'Reilly

It does, it really does. And I tell them so every opportunity I get. Fortunately, I get them pretty regularly. The best part is, RedEye pays me for the privilege.

About a week after the thing started running I saw an ad where they wanted reader feedback. So I dutifully shot off an e-mail explaining as patiently as I could what an insult to the intelligence of 18-to-34-year-olds the pseudo-newspaper was.

I received in reply an invitation to join the RedEye reader panel. Every week or so, I receive via e-mail a password to participate in the latest survey. They ask questions about the latest issue, how often I read RedEye, how much money I make, etc.

For every fourth survey I fill out (they take about five minutes to complete), I get a $10 CTA transit card, though I could have gotten gift certificates to Border’s and some other places I now forget.

And at the end of each one, when they ask if I have any comments to add. I share my unsubtle point of view. How fun.

Back, with a little bit of vengeance

/ Kevin B. O'Reilly

Let’s play catch-up. …

The only thing worse than having your moviegoing experience interrupted by someone who answers his cell phone in the middle of the picture is to receive a phone call from someone who’s in a movie theater, while the movie’s showing. Thanks a lot, Mom. …

Good riddance, Jerry Krause. Organizations may win championships, but it helps if they’re organized around Michael Jordan, doesn’t it? …

It’s amazing how hard it is to reach your destination when you don’t know where it is. Damn suburbs. …

Any time an employee for a big box store tells you the item you’re looking for is “at the end of the aisle, on the right,” it’s a lie. And when you turn around, the employee will be gone, never to be found again. …

Here’s a story I filed last week from RIMS, if you’re interested. …

I saw Tom Palmer speak at the University of Chicago last week, and whoever said he was brilliant, was right. …

And finally, there’s no delay at Meigs Field. Isn’t that great?