What seems to distinguish this moment’s push for racial justice in Southern Illinois is the number of gatherings that are taking place beyond the borders of the liberal-leaning university town.
Totally agree re NBC at the national level. Do you regard NBC Chicago the same way? I don’t watch it enough to have an opinion, and have a low opinion about most of the local stations.
I mean, they’re all leftwing rags to some degree, but when the title of the article is “Southern Illinois Towns are Dealing with Racist Past”, it’s hard to know whether the local brand is as bad as the national brand. I only watch ABC 7 local news because that crew seems genuinely interested in reporting news instead of virtue signaling their ‘correct and progressive’ position on the issues, mostly, of course. But as for NBC’s headline, there’s so, so much going on here. First, NBC calls these southern Illinois communities towns, instead of cities, implying that these people… Read more »
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
I see it’s an NBC article and I won’t even click it. NBC these days is trying to out leftwing the NYT.
Totally agree re NBC at the national level. Do you regard NBC Chicago the same way? I don’t watch it enough to have an opinion, and have a low opinion about most of the local stations.
I mean, they’re all leftwing rags to some degree, but when the title of the article is “Southern Illinois Towns are Dealing with Racist Past”, it’s hard to know whether the local brand is as bad as the national brand. I only watch ABC 7 local news because that crew seems genuinely interested in reporting news instead of virtue signaling their ‘correct and progressive’ position on the issues, mostly, of course. But as for NBC’s headline, there’s so, so much going on here. First, NBC calls these southern Illinois communities towns, instead of cities, implying that these people… Read more »