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Originally Posted by the urban politician
No, it’s the Tribune’s job to report the news and not cater to highly biased and narrow segments of the population. Remember when newspapers were like that? Ahh.. breath of fresh air. That is how a newspaper for the broad public differs from a forum full of like minded people who have identical views on transit and urbanism. It’s nice to read various viewpoints, in my opinion.
By the way, arguably there is still an exodus from Illinois. I mean, was it really disingenuous for the Tribune to post that op-Ed? Really? Like, we are one of 3 States to lose population, and the state lost population for the first time in its history. New York friggin gained well over 800,000 people! Something is still very wrong here. Any good newspaper won’t pretend that all is dandy and try to explore what the hell is going on. Even JB acknowledges that the census data was not good news.
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Actually, they should be objectively reporting both. You can't have it either way. Most of their reporting was based on previous Census estimates. Now we have the real thing, so they report that. Good journalism should also say by the way, the estimates the Census had were way off from the real thing too.
If you don't see this, then I don't know what to tell you. Losing population is bad, and they should be reporting that. They should should be reporting that the Census was literally almost 14X too high in their estimates and while losing population is bad, it's not as bad as everyone thought originally.