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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."
Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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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