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Question of the day
Wednesday, Jun 5, 2019 - Posted by Rich Miller * As we’ve already discussed, the Illinois News Network is now called The Center Square. From the publisher…
I asked several reporters if they’d ever heard of that saying and nobody has. That doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist, but when I Googled “‘hitting the center square’ reporter” I only came up with one result, the column by its publisher. The publication has burned through several different names over the past few years, so I’ve lately taken to lampooning it a bit, referring to the site as “that Center Square thingy,” “Circle gets the Center Square, “the artist formerly known as INN” etc. But after about ten of these, I’m starting to run out of names. Friends and colleagues have chimed in with helpful suggestions, but I don’t have enough stockpiled to make it through the week and my brain is still a little fried from the session. So… * The Question: Your own twist on The Center Square’s name?
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- OneMan - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 12:57 pm:
Paul Lynd news
- 47th Ward - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 12:57 pm:
TASS: Illinois News Agency.
Also, I suspect everytime they completely destroy their own credibility, they re-brand to stay a step ahead of the mess they made for themselves.
A corporate-funded mouthpiece by any other name would still try to fool the masses.
- Ok - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 12:59 pm:
Whoopi
- Ok - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 1:00 pm:
The Centralia Town Crier
(hat-tip to Proft)
- Robert the Bruce - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 1:01 pm:
Circle gets the square.
Shadoe Stevens’ blog
- Chicago 20 - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 1:01 pm:
They should change it to an unpronounceable logo with the tag, the publisher formerly known as the disgraced INN.
- City Zen - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 1:02 pm:
Right of Fax
- up2now - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 1:02 pm:
I got into journalism in 1974. Never heard of that term until now.
- Rich Miller - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 1:03 pm:
===Circle gets the square.===
Already used that one.
- wordslinger - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 1:03 pm:
You’ve hit the “center square” if you’re to the right of Bruce Rauner and to the left of Attila the Hun.
I heard they wanted to go with “tronc” but Ferro still has the rights and he wanted $2 million and tickets to Britney Spears’ show in Vegas.
- Unpopular - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 1:04 pm:
The T Square
Sponge Bob Square News
Square Are We
Journey to the Center of the Square
Square of the Dog
- Father Ted - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 1:04 pm:
The Squared Circle (wrasslin’ reference)
- A Well-Regulated Commenter - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 1:04 pm:
Right of Center Square
- Rich Miller - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 1:05 pm:
===Journey to the Center of the Square ===
Used that one, too.
- wordslinger - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 1:09 pm:
The end of the Blue Line in Forest Park is “The Center for Loose Squares.”
There are usually three or four competing entrepreneurs there selling single cigarettes.
- FakeNews - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 1:10 pm:
Each time they rebrand…. “Iron Light”, Tillman’s for profit PR firm, gets a cut. The “Center Square”, “Illinois News Network”, and other names are just the side projects and how non profit dollars get moved into for profit or used for other purposes. This happens nationally with “reporters” (who refuse to fact check or make corrections) who are shared within similar networks.
- A guy - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 1:11 pm:
Center Peg, Square Hole
- Teacher - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 1:11 pm:
Nowhere Near the Center of the Square
- hulk logan - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 1:13 pm:
Reporter Mill?
- A Well-Regulated Commenter - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 1:14 pm:
Ain’t No Center Square Enough Baby
- Annonin' - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 1:14 pm:
We will be circulating the IPI explanation to real journalism schools to see if anyone ever heard that nonsense
Meanwhile RBN — Ruth Buzzy News
- Wensicia - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 1:14 pm:
Round Peg in Square Center
- Perrid - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 1:16 pm:
The Square at the Center of the Rainbow (happy Pride month btw)
The “Squarely in the Center of the far right” folks.
The “too Square to be in the Center of the fun” brigade. Bit of a stretch there. I wanna call them square as in boring somehow.
- 100 miles wedt - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 1:16 pm:
I appreciate their diversity in honoring Paul Lynde, he he he
- ChicagoVinny - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 1:18 pm:
Kidding on the Square
Center Squared
Squares of the Midway
The Mean of the Square
Unfair and Square
- union proud - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 1:19 pm:
Radical Centering
- hisgirlfriday - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 1:21 pm:
Centre Squaer
Middlemost Quadrangle
bingo board free space
- Cheryl44 - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 1:24 pm:
Piazzale Loreto
- Stormfield - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 1:26 pm:
Hip to be (Center) Square
Square Central
R-squared
The Squarehouse
- Questioning - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 1:27 pm:
Policywood Squares (like Hollywood Squares but fused with IPI)
- Dance Band on the Titanic - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 1:27 pm:
Right Leaning Rhombus
Twice the News Area of Center Triangle
Center Circle without the Pi
- Birdseed - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 1:29 pm:
The Center of Squares
- Melido Perez - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 1:32 pm:
Just call it Bruce Vilanch.
- Squints - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 1:33 pm:
L 7 weenie
- Leatherneck - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 1:34 pm:
Our contributors grew up watching “Square Pegs” and “Square One Television.”
- walker - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 1:35 pm:
The Square Dealer
- Just Me - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 1:36 pm:
The Paul Lynde News Hour
- Anon E Moose - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 1:36 pm:
Middle Rectangle
- I Miss Bentohs - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 1:37 pm:
“Not so Hollywood” Squares
- Leatherneck - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 1:40 pm:
- Robert the Bruce - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 1:01 pm:
Circle gets the square.
Shadoe Stevens’ blog
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Do they give random readers the opportunity to pick one of 7 keys that could start a brand-new car? Like in the late ’80s Hollywood Squares with Shadoe Stevens at center square.
- Stuff Happens - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 1:41 pm:
A square is a person who’s out of touch and ‘core’ is a synonym for center.
So I guess it would be “core of ignorance?”
- Downstate Dem - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 1:43 pm:
Maybe square is the correct title for them. This is one of the meanings of square, “Square is often used to speak of a person who is regarded as dull, rigidly conventional, and out of touch with current trends.”
- Stuff Happens - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 1:43 pm:
Why play chess when you can play tic-tac-toe?
- OutOfState - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 1:44 pm:
Illinois News Square
The Good, The Center, and The Square
Squaring the Circle
Twelve Angry Squares
All Center on the Square Front
- Jose Abreu's Next Homerun - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 1:44 pm:
United Center to the Madison Square Garden
- Angry Republican - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 1:44 pm:
Tiananmen
- IL4Life - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 1:46 pm:
Off-Center Square
Be There or Be Center Square
Don’t Be a Center Square
The Illinois News Network Squared
E=MC^2 (Ex-INN equals Makeover x Center Squared)
Okay, now I’m just reaching.
- Kate Cloonen - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 1:46 pm:
Times Square - as in all those on-line newspapers Proft created, Illinois Valley Times, Kendall County Times, Kankakee Times, etc.
- Annonin' - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 1:48 pm:
First we must withdraw the Ruth Buzzi idea, because it does not appear she appeared, but the Urban Dictionary offer this provocative suggestions….
Top definition
Center Square
An adjective, the phrase refers to long-time comedian and actor Paul Lynde who occupied the center square in the long-running television show Hollywood Squares. The phrase is used to describe a person or thing that is flamboyantly gay.
See “Center Square Gay”.
Sometimes a perjorative as in a put-down of a person or thing.
Hipster slang heard in Hyde Park, Chicago; UW- Madison, Wisconsin and Washington, DC political circles.
“Mike’s dress is center square.”
“Can Mike be any more center square?”
“Did you hear that? It was so center square.”
#gay#homosexual#flamboyant#colorful#dazzling#elaborate#gaudy#showy#splashy#not serious#center square gay#straight#conservative#
by Pennlingo January 24, 2012
- Anon221 - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 1:53 pm:
Centrum Quadratum
Or, if you prefer Rauner’s favorite language…
Centro Quadrato
- Stuff Happens - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 1:56 pm:
The “middle square” method is a flawed way of generating pseudorandom numbers.
In this context, is it flawed pseudorandom reporting?
- JoeMaddon - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 1:59 pm:
The (not so) Center Square
The Center Circ(ular firing squad)
- ChrisB - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 2:04 pm:
Right Angles
- Skeptic - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 2:06 pm:
Do-See-Do to the Center Square
- A guy - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 2:12 pm:
==When a reporter is on target within their beat, they’re said “to be hitting the center square.”==
I’ve never heard this phrase. I don’t believe “Center Square” is “spot on”. I’ve heard the other plenty
- Kippax Blue - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 2:13 pm:
Tic Tac Toe? Let’s play Global-Thermonuclear War.
- Stuff Happens - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 2:28 pm:
Would this be the “rubric’s cube?”
- Three Dimensional Checkers - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 2:28 pm:
The Square Root of the Center.
- Three Dimensional Checkers - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 2:30 pm:
The Middle Parallelogram.
- Former Cadet - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 2:32 pm:
Terror on the square.
- @misterjayem - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 2:32 pm:
la plaza central
– MrJM
- Boone's is Back - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 2:33 pm:
Back to Square One
- No Dog in the Hunt - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 2:40 pm:
I’ve worked in several newsrooms in several states and never heard that expression before. Maybe a hyper-local expression?
- Jocko - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 2:41 pm:
Squaring the news to fit our central tenets
- Anon24 - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 2:45 pm:
Seconding “The Squared Circle (wrasslin’ reference)”
- Columbo - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 2:47 pm:
Center Cut - we cut to the bone of the story. Hat tip Raunie
- JS Mill - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 2:49 pm:
Center of Madness
- A guy - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 2:52 pm:
Sponge Center Square Pants
- Iron Lady - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 2:52 pm:
Teeniemen Square
- Leatherneck - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 2:58 pm:
News providers to the SJR and Channel 20.
- Unpopular - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 3:01 pm:
The Center Square Dance
- AlienOverlord - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 3:04 pm:
The Red Square…errrr… the Right News Now…the totally fair and balanced not at all conservative centrist news square, Inc.
- Anonymous - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 3:04 pm:
Right leaning parallelogram
- Jibba - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 3:04 pm:
Vitruvian News Network
- don the legend - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 3:05 pm:
channeling Austin Powers:
“Oh besquare baby.”
- Enviro - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 3:12 pm:
“Hip to Be a Square” Sesame Street
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcHzquaMh8
- Leatherneck - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 3:16 pm:
- Leatherneck - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 2:58 pm:
News providers to the SJR and Channel 20.
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At least we’re not on “Code Red” every night!
- d. p. gumby - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 3:32 pm:
Fox News Illinois…
- Amalia - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 3:57 pm:
the snore zone.
- argon - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 4:04 pm:
“Rose Marie to block”
- Try-4-Truth - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 4:12 pm:
Infowars
- RNUG - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 4:26 pm:
News Squared aka N2 or No News
- RNUG - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 4:28 pm:
News Cubed aka N3 Not Normal News
- RNUG - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 4:28 pm:
Squaring the Corners
- RNUG - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 4:31 pm:
Squaring the Fax
- hisgirlfriday - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 4:41 pm:
circular firing square
rent-a-center-and-a-party square
rauner square
square dance center
grifter square
center squawk
- Chicago 20 - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 4:52 pm:
Koch News
- ArchPundit - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 5:02 pm:
Four Square News
Recess News
Around the World News
- Naming Rights - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 5:10 pm:
Lie Squared
- ArchPundit - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 5:15 pm:
Distribution Skewed Right Square News
A bit stats oriented for most probably
- Shytown - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 5:38 pm:
Isn’t this the same name as one of mike foucher’s floundering efforts?
- Not a Billionaire - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 5:50 pm:
RT Illinois
- McLincol - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 5:57 pm:
Square Club for Men
- Vote Quimby - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 6:44 pm:
The Paul Lynne Halloween Special was my introduction to KISS.
To the post: my guess is they googled synonyms for “Fair and Balanced”… it’s shocking to me a paid “information” outlet made up a phrase no legitimate journalist has ever heard.
Sin or Be Square
You Can’t Track Us News
Chameleon News Source
John Doe News
- Six Degrees of Separation - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 7:34 pm:
Center THIS (pronounced “Center DIS” on the south side).
- notsosure - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 8:11 pm:
Pi are squared (cake are round)
- Barnaby Wilde - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 9:44 pm:
None More Square
- A Young Person - Wednesday, Jun 5, 19 @ 9:48 pm:
The Baker’s Square Center for Central Square Reporting
- Smitty Irving - Thursday, Jun 6, 19 @ 7:25 am:
Intellectually Naked News Network
- revvedup - Thursday, Jun 6, 19 @ 7:31 am:
The Wrong Square, Square of Lies, Central Pravda Square, etc.
- OutOfState - Thursday, Jun 6, 19 @ 8:05 am:
Squares, Damned Squares, and Centers
- Nuclear Bozo - Thursday, Jun 6, 19 @ 9:13 am:
Zeroes Squared
- Da Big Bad Wolf - Thursday, Jun 6, 19 @ 10:55 am:
The Loose Squares