Cheryl Reed's departure from the Chicago Sun-Times is very troubling. She says, "I am deeply troubled that the editorial board members were not allowed to address concerns raised about the Obama and McCain editorials. Instead, wholesale rewrites were done by people who aren't even on the board."

This follows decisions earlier in the history of the Sun-Times Media Group to force centralized editorial decisions on the supposedly independent boards.

"It is the responsibility of the publisher… to make sure anything we produce is of the quality we want," Publisher Cyrus Freidheim responded, "rewrites are a normal standard in every newspaper."

In other words, Reed couldn't write? And she was the voice of the newspaper?

Who makes the final decisions, what about your confidence in the editorial board? "It is the job of the publisher and the editor to make sure the quality of the job we do is top notch," Freidheim told Chicago Tonight.

Sounds as though Freidheim wasn't happy with Reed's work. Although the dispute must be deeper, Freidheim is making it sound as though this was a dispute about grammar and spelling.