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TexasTowelie

(112,217 posts)
Fri May 28, 2021, 05:17 AM May 2021

Conservative media outlet sues Lightfoot over interviews to reporters of color

A conservative media outlet filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against Mayor Lori Lightfoot over her decision this month to grant interviews only to reporters of color to mark her two-year anniversary in office.

Judicial Watch, another conservative organization, filed the lawsuit on behalf of the Daily Caller News Foundation and reporter Thomas Catenacci, who covers labor, the economy and politics.

Lightfoot announced last week that she would only grant interview requests from reporters of color “on the occasion of the two-year anniversary” of her inauguration. The Daily Caller’s lawsuit wrongly suggests Lightfoot had announced an ongoing policy.

The complaint alleges that Lightfoot has since granted at least one interview request from a self-identified Latino reporter but denied or failed to respond to interview requests from white reporters, including Catenacci.

Read more: https://chicago.suntimes.com/2021/5/27/22457256/conservative-media-outlet-sues-lightfoot-over-interviews-reporters-color-black-brown-reporters

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Conservative media outlet sues Lightfoot over interviews to reporters of color (Original Post) TexasTowelie May 2021 OP
Thin skinned jackasses. First let's find out how diverse their organazation is ... marble falls May 2021 #1
Scrutiny of their diversity would make the defense case.nt live love laugh May 2021 #2

marble falls

(57,097 posts)
1. Thin skinned jackasses. First let's find out how diverse their organazation is ...
Fri May 28, 2021, 09:41 AM
May 2021

I think we know how few persons of color they employ by the shrillness of their protest.

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