Corporate Media Mock Chicago Teachers for Trying to Help Their Community
Billionaire-owned media outlets have framed teachers’ advocacy for their students and communities as self-serving.
At Northwestern U, Distributing a Parody Paper Gets You Threatened With Prison
An exercise in culture jamming got two Northwestern students brought up on a charge that could have landed them in prison for a year.
Vivek Shandas on Climate Disruption & Heat Waves, Jamie Kalven on Laquan McDonald Coverup
There’s a way to tell the story of heat waves that connects to policy and planning, but that centers human beings.
Publishing Police Press Releases as Local ‘Crime’ Reporting
Block Club Chicago suffers, particularly on the issue of “crime” reporting, from the same stunted ethical scope all other local corporate media does. Again and again, Block Club’s “crime” reporting consists of simply copy-and-pasting Chicago police blotters about alleged crimes, with no effort to report any side other than the police’s.
‘How Many Other Laquan MacDonalds Are There?’
“In every society, there’s a torturable class. And in Chicago, at that time, the torturable class was African-Americans.”
Chicago Media Help Sheriff Exploit Post-Parkland Gun Fears to Expand Pretrial Punishment
By demagoguing the movement against cash bail, the Chicago press is helping to build the case for condemning thousands to preemptive punishment before they face a jury, much less are found guilty.
Robert Weissman on New Congress, Jamie Kalven on Police Abuse Records
We’re told the recent midterm elections were the “most expensive in US history,” but who was buying? And what do they expect in return? And what does it all mean for the relatively unmoneyed, namely most of us? We talked with Robert Weissman, president of Public Citizen, about the 114th Congress.
Also on the show: A reairing of an interview from July 2014 with Chicago journalist and activist Jamie Kalven about adding information to the story of police policy.
