# Chi-Dopers -- Sun-Times vs. Trib? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 23, 2005, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chi-dopers-sun-times-vs-trib/291478 "2005-02-23T03:56:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2005, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chi-dopers-sun-times-vs-trib/291478/21 "2005-02-23T23:21:56Z")
> [@kayT](#): > > When I went to college (millions of years ago) the Sun Times was notorious for having the most typos per square inch of any publication ever seen. I wonder if they still do…we used to speculate that the proofreaders (if any) drank. I catch errors in print like nobody’s business, but I can’t recall offhand ever spotting a typo in the ST. ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2005, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chi-dopers-sun-times-vs-trib/291478/22 "2005-02-23T23:36:31Z")
Kinda too bad; it made for some laughs and the papers today don’t offer many laughs. ---
**Author:** ![Chairman\_Pow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/838e76/32.png) [@Chairman\_Pow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chairman_Pow)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chi-dopers-sun-times-vs-trib/291478/23 "2005-02-24T00:23:03Z")
> [@Judith Prietht](#): > > I read the Trib, mainly because on Sundays they run two crosswords, one in the Books section and another in the magazine. But I have nothing against the Sun-Times at all. They actually run two crosswords daily - check out the classifieds. ---
**Author:** ![Chairman\_Pow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/838e76/32.png) [@Chairman\_Pow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chairman_Pow)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chi-dopers-sun-times-vs-trib/291478/24 "2005-02-24T00:24:13Z")
Oh, I almost forgot, the Sun-Times has a column on pro wrestling. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chi-dopers-sun-times-vs-trib/291478/25 "2005-02-24T01:07:50Z")
> [@Kyla](#): > > Since I like to read the paper while I’m commuting, I prefer the Sun-Times. It’s easier to carry, has lots of good columns, the NY Times crossword, plus all the local news. Same here. I buy it half for the NY Times crossword and the patternless crossword. The other half is for convenience—it’s so much easier to read on commutes than the Trib. I used to far prefer the Trib—after all, they had my favorite columnist Mike Royko, reason enough to buy the paper even if he was a bit nutty toward the end. But now, the convenience and crosswords compell me to buy the Sun Times. Plus it broke that whole Hired Truck scandal, which is perhaps the biggest triumph of investigative journalism in Chicago in recent memory. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chi-dopers-sun-times-vs-trib/291478/26 "2005-02-24T01:12:31Z")
> [@Chairman Pow](#): > > They actually run two crosswords daily - check out the classifieds. And the Sun-Times runs _three_ daily: one Sun-Times crossword on the second comics page, one NY Times crossword on the third comics page, and one patternless one in the classifieds. ---
**Author:** ![bonzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@bonzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bonzer)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chi-dopers-sun-times-vs-trib/291478/27 "2005-02-24T01:48:11Z")
It’s ten years since I was living in the city and so was reading either, but one of the crucial differences for me was that the Tribune - in those days at least - ran a significantly better selection of comic strips. Your son’s mileage etc. ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chi-dopers-sun-times-vs-trib/291478/28 "2005-02-24T03:36:19Z")
I like the Trib better due to it’s format–both because I can easily read the various sections in the order I prefer and because the sections can be separated easily and read by multiple people at the same time. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chi-dopers-sun-times-vs-trib/291478.md?page=1)