Credit Where Its Due: Chicago's Chuck Goudie, WLS-TV, Tells the Truth About #Occupy's Radical Origins, Bigotry

Credit Where It's Due: Chicago's Chuck Goudie, WLS-TV, Tells the Truth About #Occupy's Radical Origins, Bigotry

The Chicago media–much like the mainstream media in the rest of the country–has largely ignored the true origins of the Occupy demonstrations, and has failed to hold organizers accountable for the violence and bigotry of some of their members.

It ought to be newsworthy, for example, when individuals under investigation by the FBI for terrorism lead a sit-in outside the mayor’s office. But that fact was ignored by media reports in Chicago and elsewhere.