Forty years ago, we were on the tail of the Front Page era. There was a different point of view. Reporters and editors were more forgiving of public people. They didn't think they had to stick someone in jail to make a career.

Mike Royko then worked for the rival Chicago Tribune. Generally the Slats Grobnik columns described two men discussing a current event in a Polish neighborhood bar. ISBN 0-226-73073-5.

Over his 30-year career he wrote over 7500 daily columns for three newspapers the Chicago Daily News the Chicago Sun-Times and the Chicago Tribune. Michael "Mike" Royko (September 19 1932 – April 29 1997) was a Chicago newspaper columnist winner of the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for commentary.