Name:	lucky67 -	Reply
Subject:	journalist
Date:	5/20/2021 11:26:12 AM

remember when the abrasive, rude  Joe Acosta was banned from Trump press conferences & a judge say--"cant do that" ? well the mayor of Chicago, that crime ridden used to be great city to visit, has banned all journalists that arent " of color", meaning no whites allowed; so let see what challenges , if any, come of this, ???

Name:	Lifer -	Reply
Subject:	journalist
Date:	5/20/2021 12:07:48 PM

One Latino journalist for the Chicago Tribune had an interview scheduled but ask her to drop the silly exclusion and when she wouldn't the journo declined the interview in a move of solidarity.  Good on them, but I doubt many others will follow suit.

Name:	Lifer -	Reply
Subject:	You are a fool
Date:	5/21/2021 5:53:44 AM

If she has put that out it was purely a cover her @ss after all the blowback.

Name:	phil -	Reply
Subject:	The Truth Shall Set Thee Free
Date:	5/21/2021 8:43:24 AM

https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/lightfoot-says-she-will-only-give-1-on-1-interviews-to-journalists-of-color/2514015/

I agree it shall set you free - and you are and Lightfoot are full of chit.

The text from NBC Chicago covering this had nothing to do with a one day only thing, it is wanting systemic change and demanding that the media who covers her change their staff to fit her demands.

As Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot approaches the two-year anniversary of her inauguration, reaching the halfway point through her first term, she told the city's media outlets that she would grant one-on-one interviews to mark the occasion, but with one condition: she will only speak with journalists of color.

"I ran to break up the status quo that was failing so many. That isn't just in City Hall," Lightfoot tweeted Wednesday morning. "It's a shame that in 2021, the City Hall press corps is overwhelmingly White in a city where more than half of the city identifies as Black, Latino, AAPI or Native American."

"Diversity and inclusion is imperative across all institutions including media. In order to progress we must change," she continued. "This is exactly why I'm being intentional about prioritizing media requests from POC reporters on the occasion of the two-year anniversary of my inauguration as mayor of this great city."

Lightfoot called the racial make-up of the City Hall press corps "an imbalance that needs to change," adding that Chicago's local media "should reflect the multiple cultures that comprise it."

While some on social media responded to Lightfoot's tweets Wednesday praising the move as "equity" and a step forward in representation, many others criticized the decision.

Chicago Tribune reporter Gregory Pratt was among those disagreeing with the policy.

"I am a Latino reporter @chicagotribune whose interview request was granted for today," Pratt tweeted. "However, I asked the mayor’s office to lift its condition on others and when they said no, we respectfully canceled. Politicians don’t get to choose who covers them."

In a letter emailed to Chicago media outlets, including NBC 5, Lightfoot - Chicago's first Black female mayor and first openly gay mayor - said she wanted to "ensure" that members of the media understood her "thinking behind that decision."

"In the time since I was elected, our country has faced an historic reckoning around systemic racism," Lightfoot wrote, in a nod to the renewed racial justice movement sparked after a police officer murdered George Floyd in Minneapolis last May. "In looking at the absence of diversity across the City Hall press corps and other newsrooms, sadly it does not appear that many of the media institutions in Chicago have caught on and truly have not embraced this moment."

Lightfoot wrote that since she began her campaign for mayor, she has been "struck" by the "overwhelming whiteness and maleness of Chicago media outlets, editorial boards, the political press corps, and yes, the City Hall press corps specifically."

Lightfoot went on to list in her letter the positions in both city government and on her own team that are filled by people of color, noting that the city has "more to do" but calling equity and inclusion the "north stars" of her administration.

"I am issuing a challenge to you," Lightfoot wrote in her letter. "Hire reporters of color -- and especially women of color -- to cover Chicago politics, and City Hall in particular."

She went on to ask outlets if they have people of color in leadership teams or on editorial boards, if there are qualified reporters of color who could cover City Hall but haven't been given the chance, and if outlets have analyzed their own coverage to "identify and root out implicit bias."

"If the answer to these questions is no, be advised that I will continue to press for that to change," Lightfoot wrote.

Name:	GoneFishin -	Reply
Subject:	PHIL is again lettimg me control him
Date:	5/21/2021 9:59:20 AM

"I agree it shall set you free - and you are and Lightfoot are full of chit." Phil, you are letting me control your emotions and I am surprised you are unable to show some maturity. You just merely disagree with me which is fine. Woman and kids may read this...show them some respect. As to me, the older I become the less I care what someone says to or about me. Some of it is rather funny...dumb$ss, idiot, krap, communist, full of chit....like 8th graders trying to act like 9th graders.

Your post just proves my point. It was for one day....to mark the occssion....an anniversary Phil is only one time per year.

As Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot approaches the two-year anniversary of her inauguration, reaching the halfway point through her first term, she told the city's media outlets that she would grant one-on-one interviews to mark the occasion, but with one condition: she will only speak with journalists of color.

Whether we agree or disagree about her action...it is only for one day. If it were anew policy...I would have a serious problem with her.

I think she made her point.

Name:	phil -	Reply
Subject:	PHIL is again lettimg me control him
Date:	5/21/2021 11:13:30 AM (updated 5/21/2021 11:26:56 AM)

you are still full of chit - she is a racist clown and you approve of it.

You do not control anything but jack and chitt - and jack left town.

So what you are saying is that she is telling news organizations that they need to change their hiring practices and diversity for just one day to be allowed to interview that nut job?

yeah I have some ocean front property in Ohio for you to buy.

So where were your morals about women and children when you were posting images of our former FLOTUS??

When was the last time you admonished antifatech for his rants about chicken chit and chicken salad???

I believe it was you who posted many times about President grab them by their .. what was that word you used many many times again?????????????????????????????????????????????????

So just keep on being you - if it did not bother you, then you would not respond to me.  Your actions speak louder then your lies.

Name:	GoneFishin -	Reply
Subject:	PHIL is again lettimg me control him
Date:	5/21/2021 12:38:14 PM

"So where were your morals about women and children when you were posting images of our former FLOTUS??" They were images of an attractive woman unlike the images  you posted of  jock strap Hunter. The word I used about Trump was pussy and was the same word Trump used. What else you want to know?

You need to calm down and remember you are a Conservative who likes to tell us that Conservatives  have high moral and ethics that the Liberals lack. Either you have them or you don't. I am a Social Liberal so I get a pass. Maybe, you are really also a Social Liberal.

Name:	phil -	Reply
Subject:	PHIL is again lettimg me control him
Date:	5/21/2021 1:17:35 PM (updated 5/21/2021 1:30:22 PM)

So in other words you can lie, post images that women and children may not care to see and cuss and its ok because your a demmirat.  When you posted Flotus and Antifatech said post it like demonrats vote - early and often - I told you what I was going to do.

You want rules for everyone but yourself(and those who think like you), you get a pass because reasons.  Sorry I will file that in the folder labeled "you are so full of chit, your eyes are brown", or "When you are that full of chit you dont need a long dipstick"

Thank you for your honesty in stating you have no morals or ethics - at least you can admit that you are really lacking in those areas and most importantly not to expect you to have them.

Name:	phil -	Reply
Subject:	PHIL is again lettimg me control him
Date:	5/25/2021 9:17:55 AM

https://www.lifezette.com/2021/05/lori-lightfoot-defends-only-speaking-to-reporters-of-color-blasts-overwhelming-whiteness-of-chicago-press/?utm_source=home-headline

 Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) sent a shocking letter to the press on Weodnesday defending her decision to only speak to reporters of color moving forward and slamming the “overwhelming whiteness and maleness” of the press in the Illinois city.

now to quote GFY

"Whether we agree or disagree about her action...it is only for one day. If it were anew policy...I would have a serious problem with her.

I think she made her point."

Article was written on the 21st, her 2 year anniversary was on the 19th - looks like its may just be the new policy you would have serious problems with, time will tell if yet again you defend the racism of the left.

Name:	GoneFishin -	Reply
Subject:	NOT TRUE
Date:	5/25/2021 5:31:57 PM (updated 5/25/2021 5:36:02 PM)

Here is the first paragraph of the Mayor's letter. The reporter is reading more into it to make you "feel good". It was for 1 day....You need to remember that Conservative news outlets can't be trusted and they will make you look foolish when you quote them without doing your homework.

In the future, you may want to run your source material by me before you post and I will validate it, if true.

Name:	MrHodja -	Reply
Subject:	NOT TRUE
Date:	5/25/2021 9:11:51 PM

Goofy I hope you are sitting down. 

This from a CBS News piece I found on line:  "According to the mayor's office, the interview restrictions are for one day."

Name:	phil -	Reply
Subject:	NOT TRUE
Date:	5/26/2021 8:09:22 AM (updated 5/26/2021 8:10:14 AM)

So glad you support limited racism.  As I said - time will tell if this is her new norm.

So based on her and your statements - you support just some limited racism.

Name:	GoneFishin -	Reply
Subject:	What I Think
Date:	5/26/2021 12:56:13 PM

It is encouraging that a white boy from Alabama is so concerned with a Racist For A Day Black woman. Obviously, her One Day racism bothers you more than it does me which I guess means something. . In the big picture, it is not at the top of my list of things to worry about. I'll leave that to you.

Name:	phil -	Reply
Subject:	What I Think
Date:	5/26/2021 1:37:15 PM (updated 5/26/2021 2:24:22 PM)

Glad to know that a "white boy from Alabama" is more concerned about racism then a liberal demonrat racist.  In once sentance you have assumed my race, gender and location - how very liberal and progressive of you to use them as a attack on my gender, race and state.

Its sad that you are not concerned about racism in demonrat form - but then again you have said you are demonrat and you have no morals or ethics so there is always that.