Twenty years ago, in Moscow, Matt Taibbi was a misogynist asshole—and possibly worse

Matt Taibbi's past is catching up with him.

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#Requiescat One last nugget, I promise. In 2009, #SteveAlbini wrote this for Record Store Day and the #ChicagoReader published it as an ad for #RecklessRecords.

❝Let’s say you want to buy one Neil Young record, and not as a joke, so you can skip the rockabilly one. He has maybe 20 credible albums to choose from. You need a record store guy who is super into Neil Young to help you through that maze.❞

Excellent. The Chicago Reader is returning to a weekly format.

#Chicago #ChicagoReader

https://chicagoreader.com/columns-opinion/staff-notes/weekly-newspaper/

Publisher’s note: why the Reader is returning to weekly publishing

The Chicago Reader's print publication will return to weekly publishing in June 2024 after nearly four years of a biweekly cadence.

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"Not every person who is homeless is mentally ill or uses drugs, and having one of those traits—or all three—doesn’t make you dangerous; it makes you vulnerable. Indeed, study after study demonstrates that people without homes are far more likely to be victims of violent crime than they are to commit it."

Katie Prout for #ChicagoReader: https://chicagoreader.com/news-politics/why-you-talking-to-a-bum-cta-unhoused-police/

#Longreads #EditorsPicks #Chicago #Unhoused

‘Why you talking to a bum?’

When the very presence of unhoused people on the CTA is considered a public safety concern, who is the public, and what are we keeping them safe from?

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Just catching up with this #ChicagoReader #LoriLightfoot "interview" that fails to ask a single tough questions. What's wrong with #Chicago's media?

#Journalism
#ChiMayor23

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Lightfoot looks back - Chicago Reader

https://chicagoreader.com/news-politics/mayor-lori-lightfoot-gettinger/

Lightfoot looks back

Ahead of the February 28 election, the mayor talks to the Reader about the past four years.

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So…looking through this ever growing list of journalists on mastodon, https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13No4yxY-oFrN8PigC2jBWXreFCHWwVRTftwP6HcREtA/htmlview?usp=sharing&pru=AAABhHdK7Lk*gUF2w-6BNQV_OEEx-M5RuQ I’m wondering where #Chicago focused #journalists are? I mean, seeing Wisconsin, North Carolina, Colorado (and obviously NY). No #SunTimes, not even the #ChicagoTribune. No #blockclub, no #wttw or #ChicagoReader. 😟
OTOH, found lots of international journalists! 🙂
Journalists on Mastodon and Fediverse (Responses) - Google Drive

https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-chicago-reader-owner-steps-down-20220426-peb4cevbnbfpthamwza6c33wjm-story.html

For those interested. The standoff between workers and owners over transitioning a Chicago paper to a nonprofit has ended. The people have won.

#chicago #chicagoreader #journalism

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