By Steve Rhodes
Homan Square, the NSA, the CIA, Trans-Pacific Partnership. Plus: Pander bears in a runoff and where Brian Williams hid the news.
SHOW NOTES
:00: Strawberry Rock Show.
* Happiness is a phone photo of the menu.
2:32: Ultimate Painting at Bric-a-Brac last Sunday night.
* The Week In Chicago Rock.
4:51: What Chicagoans Aren’t Being Told.
* Homan Square in The Guardian.
* The Beachwood Radio Hour #46: Explaining Chicago’s Black Site.
* Obamathon, just for starters.
No one else in America got the story so right.
* The NSA on the Beachwood.
* ProPublica.
* Creative Commons!
* Steal Our Stories.
* Weekend Desk tweets.
14:15: Beachwood Under Water.
* The Electronic Frontier Foundation.
* Newsrooms as extensions of the marketing department.
20:26: Lupe Fiasco at Schubas last Monday night.
21:19: The News Brian Williams Hid.
* New York magazine buries the lede.
24:27: Beachwood Back On Land.
* Journalists: Mostly hypocritical, (undeservedly) arrogant jerks.
26:40: In The MSM’s Closets.
* Yes, you do have closet in New York. It’s in your dressing room.
29:06: Dee-1 at Schubas on Monday night.
29:59: Still In Denial About The MSM’s Iraq War Coverage.
* Bob Woodruff, not Scott Simon.
* Journalists completely lacking in self-awareness, criticism.
* It’s a mindset.
* What even is the Reader?
37:15: Pander Bears.
* Rahm on red lights, Chuy on the Obama library.
* Chuy’s tenuous grasp on the issues.
* Sleazy vs. clumsy.
* Chuy acting like he’s the mayor already!
* Chuy just stepped on the real story of Rahm’s incompetency.
47: Meghan Trainor at House of Blues on Wednesday night.
* The mixed messages of “All About That Bass.”
* The Beachwood Radio Sports Hour #42: Bears Get Boring.
Clearing the drama decks. Plus: Who The Hell Is E’Twaun Moore?; The Big Boy Blackhawks; Tony, Oh!; Joe Maddon Is A Madman; The Mesmerizing Minnie Miñoso; and The Chicago Fire Do Some Stuff.
(No Trainor, just sayin’.)
51:37: STS9 at House of Blues on Thursday night.
52:36: Homan Square Must-Reads.
* The [Wednesday] Papers.
Another day, another Guardian story.
* The [Thursday] Papers.
John Conroy vs. the Chicago media. Again.
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Posted on March 8, 2015