Everybody loves blogs! Even Phil Rosenthal

Great news this Monday morning -- one of my favorite journalists on any beat, Phil Rosenthal, finally has his own blog. So now he can fully cover the collapse of MSM instead of picking and choosing which items to cover for his must-read column in the Chicago Tribune.

Phil, who shares a name and love of delicatessans with the creator of "Everybody Loves Raymond," has been a friend and colleague since way back, when he was still writing a column for the L.A. Daily News and I was still toiling at a desk job in Chicago. No one is better at this beat than Phil. The more of him the better (which, as you can see from his photograph, is saying something).

With the recent retirement of Rob Feder from the rival Sun-Times, it's an excellent chance for Phil to lock in all those readers who had gotten used to Feder's total coverage of local broadcasting.