Posted Apr 28, 2021, 8:27 PM
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look at us still talking
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Join Date: Jun 2018
Location: Loop, Chicago
Posts: 6,570
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Originally Posted by the urban politician
^ We have cheerleaders. World Business Chicago is one. The city’s leaders are another. Choose Chicago is a third. I frankly think that they need to do a better job of cheerleading than expecting our newspapers to do it.
The newspaper’s job is to report the news.. If it didn’t report the news and just acted like a cheerleader, it would be regarded as an even more shitty paper, actually.
Fine, it’s not political and that’s great. But I just don’t get what more you would expect from a newspaper that was being presented ACS & census data year after year showing that literally hundreds of thousands of people are leaving Illinois, the black middle class is bailing, and murders rates continue to be stubbornly very high compared to peer cities?
To the contrary, a rosy outlook given that information would’ve been disingenuous, as opposed to what the Tribune actually has been doing.
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It's about the stories that the Tribune chooses to emphasize, which are overwhelmingly anti-transit, anti-bike and scaremongering. Did the Tribune even bother running this story, for example: https://chicago.suntimes.com/educati...e-college-prep
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