Analyzing Media Coverage of Chicago Gun Violence Over the Weekend
On Monday, CBS Local reported that at least eight people were killed and 34 people were injured in shootings in Chicago over the weekend. Consistent with past weekends, Fox Chicago, the Chicago Sun-Times, and CBS Local kept tallies of gun violence incidents and published the final tallies on Monday morning. As per usual, these outlets […]
Analyzing Weekend Gun Violence Coverage
On Monday, the Chicago Sun-Times reported that four people were killed and 32 people were injured in shootings across the city this past weekend. Just as in previous weekends, CBS Local, Fox Chicago, and the Chicago Sun-Times published updated tallies of violent incidents over the course of the weekend. These outlets published a final tally […]
Recap of Weekend Gun Violence Coverage
This past weekend in Chicago, CBS Local reported that at least 21 people were injured and 4 people were killed in shootings between 5pm on Friday and 5am on Monday. Media coverage of gun violence over the weekend focused heavily on three incidents from the weekend: a 10-year-old boy who was injured in a shooting […]
Covering George Floyd Protests
On today’s show we discuss covering the George Floyd protests from the streets with a former Marine that brings with him a unique perspective on the freedoms being exercised by protestors and what it meant to him to be one of the people that put his life on the line to fight for those rights. […]
Recap of Weekend Gun Violence Coverage
This past weekend in Chicago, CBS Local reported that there were at least 36 people shot and 4 people killed in Chicago between Friday at 5 pm and Monday at 5 am. Just as in previous weeks, CBS Local, Fox Chicago, and the Chicago Sun-Times kept track of the weekend’s shootings and published updated articles […]
Framing Chicago’s Gun Violence Weekend
There were at least 20 people injured and 2 people killed in shootings across Chicago over this past weekend. Similarly to past weekends, Fox Chicago, CBS Local, and the Chicago Sun-Times all published updated tallies of shootings throughout the weekend. All three news outlets defined the weekend as beginning at 5pm on Friday and […]
Analysis of Weekend Gun Violence Coverage
This past weekend, from February 26 to March 1, was the most deadly weekend this month in Chicago. Fox Chicago reported that 27 people were shot between 5pm on Friday and 5am on Monday. Five of these 27 people died. Similarly to last weekend, Fox Chicago, the Chicago Sun-Times, and CBS Local published tallies of […]
Abuse of Media Covering Protests
In today’s episode we discuss the abuse suffered by credentialed media at the hands of local police forces. While police actions responding to protests have always been called in to question the ferociousness behind the abuse by municipal police departments across the county to local and national news outlets sure seemed different this time around. […]
Alternative Media – Same Bad Reporting
The idea behind the need for alternative media is that the alternative is supposed to be better than the regular. In Chicago when it comes to crime reporting, which is all the rage now, nobody does more of it than the Crime in Wriglyville and Boystown Blogish thing now going by CWB Chicago. If you […]
NBC 5’s Pretty Carjacking Report
The reason we have journalists is to provide well rounded context to government data so the public is in a better position to assess the quality of the services provided by our government agencies. Katy Smyser’s recent post titled “NBC 5 Investigates Tracked 110 Carjacking in Chicago Over the First 7 Weeks of 2020” for […]