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On June 30, Mike Flannery, political editor of Fox 32-Chicago, will retire after 50 years on the beat. He sat down with the Sun-Times, where he got his start, to reminisce about his storied career and the “blind spots” of the Chicago mayors he has covered.
Audio and summary linked here.
A mess of uncertainty and litigation is sure to follow.
Summary and audio linked here.
With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
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Too bad, he’s a class act and an equal opportunity offender-he calls out politicians of both parties who are screw ups. I can’t read the article, but loved the man for unbiased reporting over the years. Most reporters lean so far to the left their heads are at about 7 o’clock on a clock face.
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The Flannery Fired Up show could be good but it’s so short, once you take out for all the commercials (about 15 min), it’s a joke. And pathetically there’s no other political coverage on broadcast tv other than npr/Chicago Tonight, which leans very left
Bummer. Flannery has been among the very few in Illinois media who gave a fair place to voices like Wirepoints’.