I can think of few professions more protective of its brand than journalism. As if media cucks needed more to discredit their product, this --

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot will grant interviews only to 'Black or Brown journalists,' local reporters say


Reporters out of Chicago are alleging that Democratic Mayor Lori Lightfoot is now granting interviews only to journalists of color.

NBC 5 Chicago political reporter Mary Ann Ahern took to Twitter on Tuesday to mark the "midway point" of Lightfoot's first term in office and apparently acknowledged her failed effort to land an interview.

"As ⁦@chicagosmayor reaches her two year midway point as mayor, her spokeswoman says Lightfoot is granting 1 on 1 interviews - only to Black or Brown journalists," Ahern tweeted.

And apparently, Ahern wasn't the only one.

"I was told the same thing," WTTW Chicago Tonight anchor and correspondent Paris Schutz reacted to Ahern's tweet.

"I can confirm," Chicago politics reporter Heather Cherone similarly tweeted.

It is unclear when such a practice was enacted and if it only applies to local reporters, particularly after her MSNBC appearance with Stephanie Ruhle on Monday.

Lightfoot was slammed on social media, facing allegations of racism for choosing to speak with journalists solely on the color of their skin.

The Chicago mayor appeared to confirm the practice on Twitter.

"It's a shame that in 2021, the City Hall press corps is overwhelmingly White in a city where more than half of the city identifies as Black, Latino, AAPI or Native American," Lightfoot wrote on Wednesday. "Diversity and inclusion is imperative across all institutions including media. In order to progress we must change."

She continued, "This is exactly why I'm being intentional about prioritizing media requests from POC reporters on the occasion of the two-year anniversary of my inauguration as mayor of this great city. This is an imbalance that needs to change. Chicago is a world-class city. Our local media should reflect the multiple cultures that comprise it… It’s time for the newsrooms to do better and build teams that reflect the make-up of our city."

The Chicago Mayor's office issued a statement to Fox News reiterating Lightfoot's comments.

Who the fuck would want to talk to that racist POS anyway?
She has NOTHING intelligent to say.

Racism and discrimination pure and simple.

The Fourth Estate should call this out.

I will not be holding my breath.

Character vs. Color of ones skin. I'm sure Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is SO proud today.

Good. Digging their own grave and further alienating all the other ethnic groups that make up Chicago. Even Richard J. Daley could not pull that one off.

Her hypocrisy knows no bounds...

Chicago Democrats won't care what she does, so long as Cemetery residents are allowed to vote.

Might be a good basis for a lawsuit…

Filthy hypocrite.

When I worked for the Associated Press (back before it became woke) Spike Lee demanded the same thing.

She basically saying that she as a politician has a right to dictate who covers her administration. Be interesting to see how the woke media responds to that.

She's no daisy. No daisy at all.

Racist bitch.

Aside from the blatant racism, it's almost certainly also to avoid the possibility of an interview that might be adversarial.

I'm sure that the ACLU will jump on this. Oh wait.........maybe not.

Jim

Imagine if all the non-black/brown people voted against her in the next election. But that wouldn't happen because they vote against party lines there even if it means cutting their own nose off.

Well, the craziest of cringe fringe left will never see this for what it is, so they don't give a sh*t. People not unlike the greater block of membership here, so called deplorables, see it all too clearly but SSDD, and so they don't give a sh*t.

The people in the middle, the go-with-the-flow followers, some of whom might still have a couple of brain cells to rub together, I bet a solid chunk of that group gives a sh*t.


The dumb asses, who wagged the dog all last summer, are losing ground very quickly. The ground will soon fall away from their feet. They will be defiant to the last. We may need to nudge some to the precipice.

I’d request an interview and say I identify as a Filipino woman.

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Her hypocrisy knows no bounds...

I'm curious...can you engage in hypocrisy, with an IQ of 80?

Imagine if this were the lead story tomorrow..."Florida Governor DeSantis puts policy in place only allowing white journalists access for interviews." Anybody wanna take a shot at what the response would be by every segment of the media? Yeah.