CNN Gets Its Living-In-A-Box Scare Story from the Chicago Tribune

Tim Graham
March 3rd, 2010 7:20 AM
Mark Finkelstein noticed how CNN found Chicago single mother Madonna Alvarez to suggest Sen. Jim Bunning was going to have her living in a cardboard box. CNN surely found this from an even more dramatic story by Duaa Eldeib in Monday's Chicago Tribune that started like this: Madonna Alvarez, a single mother of three, fears her unemployment benefits and the little that's left of her savings are…