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PI Original
by Josh Kalven
2:12pm
Thu Jul 24, 2008

Daley To Media: "Don't Look At The Politician"

Media

Last week, Mayor Richard Daley took the media to task for their coverage of police brutality charges, suggesting that the risk of bad headlines is making Chicago cops timid. During the rant, he said: "Remember how long you kept beating the police? That affects them.
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PI Original
by Josh Kalven
4:27pm
Wed Jul 23, 2008

Trice: Daley's Targeting Of Media Coverage "Shameful"

Chicago Tribune

Yesterday's "Tuesday Commentary" on WTTW's Chicago Tonight went toTribune columnist Dawn Turner Trice, who voiced her hope that Chicago police will "step up" in the face of the city's rising violence without resorting to brutality. She also took aim at ...

PI Original
by Adam Doster
11:04am
Tue Jul 22, 2008
1 comment

Tribune Loses Top Investigative Reporter

Media

Bad news for Chicagoans who value the Fourth Estate: Maurice Possley, a Tribune investigative reporter who helped bring about the state’s death penalty moratorium, is resigning from the paper before it trims roughly 60 newsroom staff positions.

From Crain's:

Mr. ...

PI Original
by Adam Doster
2:18pm
Wed Jul 16, 2008

Daley Claims Police Are Intimidated By Media (UPDATED)

Crime

During his marathon session before a City Council committee yesterday, Chicago Police Supt. Jody Weis suggested that many of his officers were not doing their jobs properly in part because of intimidation: "I have heard from many officers that there is a ...

PI Original
by Adam Doster
12:00pm
Tue Jul 15, 2008

The New Yorker's Weak Satire

Barack Obama

Kossacks -- and later the Obama campaign -- erupted yesterday in response to this week's New Yorker cover, which features a cartoon depicting
Barack and Michelle Obama "as fist-bumping, flag-burning, bin
Laden-loving terrorists in the Oval Office." Both major ...

PI Original
by Josh Kalven
5:50pm
Mon Jul 14, 2008
2 comments

Obama's Personal Responsibility Message Isn't Just For Black Folks

Media

In the wake of the Jesse Jackson "incident," there's been a lot of talk about what the reverend meant when he said Barack Obama has been "talking down to black people." Both in private conversations I've had and in discussions I've observed on the ...

PI Original
by Josh Kalven
12:05pm
Fri Jul 11, 2008

The Rev. Jackson Incident: Blessing Or Curse?

White House '08

On WTTW's Chicago Tonight yesterday, the Sun-Times' Laura Washington echoed the widely-held sentiment that the controversy this week over Rev. Jesse Jackson's comments about Barack Obama represented a "huge favor" to the Democratic nominee. The logic is: A) white ...

PI Original
by eads
4:32pm
Thu Jul 10, 2008
1 comment

Polling Wrap-Up

Barack Obama

More Poverty-Related Coverage, Please
According to a poll conducted by the group Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity, 56 percent of respondents disagreed with this statement: "The media has spent an adequate amount of time during the presidential campaign covering the ...

PI Original
by Josh Kalven
11:22am
Thu Jul 10, 2008

McCain And The Social Security "Disgrace" (UPDATED)

Media

Here's a very brief report from ABC7's 10pm broadcast last night on John McCain's recent comments about Social Security: Unfortunately, the report glosses over McCain's original comments, made at a town hall event in Colorado on Monday: &quot...