By Steve Rhodes
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Among other countervailing facts, Lori Lightfoot says she’s been shown by the outgoing administration that the city’s pension liabilities are worse than the public has been told, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ pic.twitter.com/V7LaEgazYs
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) May 14, 2019
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New on the Beachwood . . .
The Fox “News” Lie
“A new report released Monday by Media Matters For America found that not a single day went by in the first four months of 2019 when the ‘hard news’ arm of Fox News didn’t lie to its audience.
“Fox has long assured viewers and advertisers that the network’s news and opinion wings are fundamentally different. But, as Media Matters president Angelo Carusone explained in a statement, that isn’t really based in fact.
“‘Fox News likes to tout the ‘hard news’ side of its operation, setting up a false distinction between its right-wing prime-time hosts and its news anchors,’ said Carusone. ‘The network pushes this fictional division as a defense against those who flag the propaganda, lies, conspiracy theories, and bigotry pervading the network.’
“Rather, as Carusone’s team found, the channel’s news anchors spread similar misinformation as its more opinionated prime-time hosts such as Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham and Tucker Carlson.”
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ChicagoReddit
Illinois Science Council invites you to the 5th annual Chicago Science Fest Expo Day! from r/chicago
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ChicagoGram
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ChicagoTube
WMAQ Channel 5 – Rap It Up – “Should Marijuana Be Legalized?” (1975)
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BeachBook
What Hedge Funds Consider A Win Is A Disaster For Everyone Else.
Every interview of a hedge funder should include a question about the morals of what they do. But that would be . . . journalism!
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TweetWood
A sampling.
Disappointing that DC journos didn’t use opportunity to ask PM Orban critical questions about democratic backslide in #Hungary. HU journos NEVER get a chance to ask PM anything as he doesn’t engage w media at all. Orban hasn’t had a televised debate in over a decade…
— Lydia Gall (@LydsG) May 13, 2019
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On May 13, 1989 hundreds of students began an indefinite hunger strike in Tiananmen Square.
In the last 30 years there has been no public remembrance in mainland China for the hundreds, if not thousands of people killed during the crackdown that followed. #WeRemember64 pic.twitter.com/LfweYDPesp
— Amnesty International (@amnestyusa) May 13, 2019
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In which an Attorney General who swore to protect and defend the Constitution calls All That “Beltway Silliness.” https://t.co/UJP9pP1F8i
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) May 13, 2019
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— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) May 14, 2019
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The Beachwood McRibTipLine: Break it down, again.
Posted on May 14, 2019