For those of us in this business who have been fired or threatened or pilloried with hate mail for something we've written, it's easy tofeel proud of the folks at the Chicago Tribune for holding Blagojevich accountable and doing it so ably that they went from covering the story to being part of it.
And he was getting terrible pressure from friends, family members, his wife, to - I hate this word - have closure, to forgive her, to see her at the end because he would feel so guilty if he didn't have a reconciliation.