Media Plays Catch-Up Again

If we were the media, we'd be embarrassed to even report this.

First Sneed:

• Sneed has learned that the bell tolled at midnight Monday for top cops toiling in the city’s top shooting galleries and murder dens.
  
  Translation: A massive police shake-up by Police Supt. Garry McCarthy went into effect late Monday when he made seven executive police moves.

That was reported 04 December at 8:12 PM.

The the Tribune:

• As the Chicago Police Department tries to tamp down the city’s rise in homicides and shootings this year, Superintendent Garry McCarthy announced a shake-up in his command structure, moving seven commanders to different assignments.
  
  The changes mean that McCarthy has replaced 19 of the city’s 23 district commanders – some because of retirement -- since he became superintendent in May 2011.

That was 05 December at 5:03 PM, twenty-one hours after Sneed.

Unfortunately, Sneed seems to have cribbed her column from our posting of 12:09 AM on 04 December, which was drawn from a comment at 7:46 PM on 03 December.

So our readers beat Sneed and the dead-tree media by over 24-hours on her "scoop." Congratulations readers.