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When I arrived in Chicago in 1952, the Tribune was priced at three cents per copy. At that time it was a dependable, readable newspaper with great editorials, careful not to deviate from the parameters of truthful journalism. Now the daily Tribune is priced at 50 cents, its readable space has shrunk to make room for advertising and its editorials are no longer reliable.
How can you have the nerve to call the Social Security cost-of-living adjustments outrageous (Editorial, Oct. 12) when since 1950 the typical Social Security pension hardly increased four-fold (that’s half the inflation rate) while the price of your paper increased a whopping 17-fold, twice as fast as the inflation rate? The reader wants an explanation.
