I wasn't buying it then, and after seven hours of sleep and reading an article in this morning's Chicago "free registration" Tribune, my mind is set on the matter.
Jacobson had it coming.
The Trib is reporting this morning that Jacobson, presumably while not wearing a bikini top, was speaking to the Plainfield Police about her contacts with Craig Stebic, who yesterday was named a "person of interest" in regards to the disappearance of his wife.
And Jacobson didn't tell her bosses about it.
From the Trib:
Sources say that breach of company standards, which made her a part of a story she was covering and had been warned she was getting too close to, was just the latest incident over the past several years to cause bosses to lose their confidence in Jacobson's judgment and cost the star reporter her job, sources say.
Other run-ins included a dispute over access inside a Bears playoff game earlier this year and her promise to the family of a boy killed in a 2005 jet crash at Midway Airport that she would share her interview with a pool of other local stations in a timely fashion only to first hold onto the story as an exclusive, colleagues and competitors contacted for this story recall.
Those who like and admire Jacobson and those she rubs the wrong way describe her as someone who will do whatever it takes to get her story. This has produced both exclusive stories and reprimands, sources say.
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