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WTTW's community advisory board used its most recent annual report to express concerns over changes with "Chicago Tonight" as well as communication issues with management. In the report, which was released on Dec. 19, the 26-member board stated concerns after "observing over the past year the work of the News Department, in general, and the presentation of 'Chicago Tonight,' in particular."
With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
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.
Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
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The last WTTW public meeting report in December 2021 is filled with DEI garbage. It likely has gotten much worse in the two years of secrecy since then. Taxpayer money has no place with NPR, Public Radio or Public TV. Democrat Propaganda doesn’t need to be funded by the taxpayers especially since public broadcasting hates half of the population.
I see that WTTW has not posted these advisory board reports for several years:https://interactive.wttw.com/about/community-advisory-board/meeting-reports
Are their ratings/subscriptions tanking? On the other hand, from a couple days ago, this ST article has ST Executive Editor J Kho writing that things are going DEI swimmingly, subscriptions are up, at ST-WBEZ new Chicago Public Media non-profit partnership. I guess WTTW is not part of ST-WBEZ Chicago Public Media non-profit partnership?
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/12/28/24000102/sun-times-top-stories-2023-community-listening-readers-plans-2024