Chicago Tribune Columnist Under Review For $20,000 Given By event supporting an Iranian group designated as a terrorist organization

The Chicago Tribune reports:

The Chicago Tribune is reviewing an unauthorized paid speaking engagement by its Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Clarence Page at an event supporting an Iranian group designated as a terrorist organization.

Page, a member of the Tribune editorial board, received $20,000 and was given travel expenses for the June 23 event in Paris, which was sponsored by a group called the Organizing Committee for Convention for Democracy in Iran. It turned out to be a large rally in support of the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq, a controversial organization that has been engaged in a high-profile campaign to be removed from the U.S. government's list of terrorist groups.

Great moments in establishment journalism. No word yet from Professor Eric Alterman on this story.