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player ready...Newspaper traditions are shattering in the economic swoon, and another fell in Downstate Jacksonville, where the nameplate of the local Journal-Courier has traditionally featured pictures of Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas.
On Wednesday, those boring old dead guys (sure Abe split rails, but he never sent a text message) were replaced by two far more relevant Illinois statesmen: Rod Blagojevich and George Ryan.
Journal-Courier editor Ted Roth said the switch had newsroom phone lines buzzing.
“Why would you put Blago and Ryan’s picture on the paper?” complained one irate and apparently slow-at-the-switch reader, who paused until the light bulb went on. “Oh, I get it,” the reader finally said.
It was April Fools’ Day in central Illinois. Deal with it.