Long Duck Dong
05-19-2021, 03:13 PM
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9596523/Chicago-Mayor-Lori-Lightfoot-faces-backlash-giving-black-brown-reporters-interviews.html?ito=native_share_article-masthead
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is facing backlash over a decision to grant one-on-one interviews to only 'black and brown' reporters to mark her two-year anniversary in the role.
Gregory Pratt, a Chicago Tribune reporter who is Latino, revealed he was among those who had been granted an interview but the newspaper decided to cancel it when Lightfoot refused to lift her ban on other reporters.
'I am a Latino reporter @chicagotribune whose interview request was granted for today. However, I asked the mayor's office to lift its condition on others and when they said no, we respectfully canceled,' Pratt tweeted.
'Politicians don't get to choose who covers them.'
The Mayor confirmed in a series of tweets that she was intentionally 'prioritizing media requests from POC reporters' and that it was a 'shame' the journalists assigned to cover Chicago's City Hall in 2021 were overwhelmingly white
Really? More than 2 decades into the 21st century and this is where we're at? :facepalm
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is facing backlash over a decision to grant one-on-one interviews to only 'black and brown' reporters to mark her two-year anniversary in the role.
Gregory Pratt, a Chicago Tribune reporter who is Latino, revealed he was among those who had been granted an interview but the newspaper decided to cancel it when Lightfoot refused to lift her ban on other reporters.
'I am a Latino reporter @chicagotribune whose interview request was granted for today. However, I asked the mayor's office to lift its condition on others and when they said no, we respectfully canceled,' Pratt tweeted.
'Politicians don't get to choose who covers them.'
The Mayor confirmed in a series of tweets that she was intentionally 'prioritizing media requests from POC reporters' and that it was a 'shame' the journalists assigned to cover Chicago's City Hall in 2021 were overwhelmingly white
Really? More than 2 decades into the 21st century and this is where we're at? :facepalm