Letter: Caving to Pritzker

Your front-page article to your readers in the Sept. 23 edition of the Daily Herald would be comical if it weren't so disturbing. Gov. Pritzker's campaign manager, Michael Ollen, takes you to task for doing legitimate business with another news organization, Local Government Information Services, which apparently is critical of Gov. Pritzker's policies and practices. Ollen, without any discussion with you, cancels Gov. Pritzker's participation in an online political forum with Darren Bailey, which you arranged on behalf of a professional media organization.

You, rather than exposing this bullying and standing your ground, cancel the business arrangement. Shame on you.

What are you going to do the next time Gov. Pritzker attempts to exert undue influence on your legitimate business practices because he believes they are a threat to his power? Don't dictators try to silence opposing points of view in order to remain in power?

Isn't it the job of the press to expose these threats using their "journalistic integrity?"

Doing legitimate business doesn't present a threat to your journalistic integrity but kowtowing to the state's highest ranking elected official sure does. Again, shame on you.

Peter Gennuso

Schaumburg