No Coverage by Media?
Well, very little coverage at least:
- On the way home today from work Gary Meier/WGN was saying that someone shot 6 times at the WGN/Michigan Ave. studio window. Anyone has any more info. on this? He was saying that this didn't even make the paper or TV. Incredible that even WGN was trying to play this down.
Six holes in your window isn't six stray bullets. That's someone shooting at the bright lights just to see what happens. And you get a five minute mention on the radio? We think this is called "willful blindness."
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posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
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It's tourist season, SCC. We can't have headlines like that or the tourists won't come and spend their money at our overpriced parking garages and beach parking spaces, our understaffed parks, our "un-fireworks" annual third of July celebration, our out of control display of Chicago gang warfare (otherwise known as Taste of Chicago), our 100% over-budget for renovations Buckingham Fountain, our neighborhood festivals that drain the entire police department of its resources citywide, our main library that closes for 'furlough' days and on the holidays kids are off school and could actually USE it...
Don't want those headlines, SCC. The administration needs those touri$t dollar$.
Mayor Richard M. Daley ordered the Chicago media ( you know those papers and TV stations that he controls) to suppress this story.
It is bad for Chicago's image. Just wait until Da Mayor's crib gets flatblasted.
The city is a war zone. There are no more "safe" areas. King Dick is just hoping that the democrats and the liberals keep their blinders on until he get re-elected. What it is going to take is someone "important" to get killed by a shithead in one of the historically safe areas. Even he won't be able to spin that. My guess this year: Taste of Chicago/ 3 shot one dead, Bud Biliken/Multiple shootings, 6 shot, 2 dead. How can anyone in this city not comprehend that the Bud parade has become a gang infested kill zone. The city is going to be stripped of it's police to cover the savagery that occurs every year there. I am hoping for a blood bath so we can end that farce once and for all.
Michigan Avenue will not & does not experience any type of firearm violence,the Runt has said so.
sounds like an *outside* crime.
as you know the media/daley is trying to keep a lid on the crime reports in the areas where the tourists and stupid yuppies go.
sounds like an *outside* crime.
as you know the media/daley is trying to keep a lid on the crime reports in the areas where the tourists and stupid yuppies go.
6/02/2010 03:17:00 AM
I beg to differ. The bullets were outside, they went inside which, in my opinion, warrants a completely new category.
---not a cop
Damn suburbanites! Why can't they leave the guns at home?
The media might suppress the story but what about the 018th District police?
Hello 018, was there a case report on this shooting? what is the real story? What is the RD#?
Can anyone look up the event history and then the case report and see what WGN initially reported to the police?
Here in Chicago two real estate developers (Mesirow - Jim Tyree, who owns Mesirow-Stein development group, and Zell, meglomaniac) control the two newspapers. Neither owner has a journalism background, nor an interest in covering news in an indepth and thorough manner. Both are happy to be Daley/Chicago boosters. Zell has turned Trib into a tabloid fish-wrap; Suntimes was devalued by its previous owner and the new owner Mesirow/Tyree has no interest in improving the news coverage. So most Chicagoans, if interested in professional news coverage, are left with WBEZ (a politically correct screed, but it does carry NPR news), NY Times twice weekly Chicago coverage (stronger journalism in two pages than both Chicago papers combined), and perusing the internet. Significant portion of Chicagoans don't follow news whatsoever, and probably can't even identify who Gov. Quinn is. No wonder Chicago/Cook County/Illinois is controlled by corrupt and lazy politicians - there's hardly any news-worthy reportings to worry about.
14 aug bud parade & air show. STAND THE FUCK BY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I bet it was Roe Conn!
just some kid shooting his toy gun with plastic bullets...
nothing to see here.
I have no doubt it was one of those suburban kids who received a text to come downtown and fire a weapon at this window...
Crime on North Michigan Avenue is like spotting the BIG Shark in Jaws close to the beach.
No one wants to admit it until they cannot deny it. That's unfortunate to the first couple of victims.
And now that the City has banned suburban restaurants, and therefore, suburbanites, Taste of Gangland ought to be a real site this year. Just build a fence around the park and let 'em have at it.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/24-7/2345912,tribune-tower-damage-building-060210.article
Doesnt sound that bad
How about the shooting on about 5035 West Division on Sunday 5/30/2010 at about 0500 hours. The offender used an automatic weapon and fired off about 15 rounds! That didn't make the news!
I know this doesn't belong in this comment section but here goes. I can't wait for the 4th of July fireworks at Navy Pier, the city thinks that the BULLSHIT they are trying to pull that having the fireworks at 3 locations will give reason to folks to celebrate in thier neighborhood is pure bunk, waut until the THUGS loot all of the little shops at NavyPier, they will clean up, and these shops won't be protected, wait until families are terrorized by the THUG BOYZ, I can't wait to the mayors beloved Navy Pier is over run, When the THUGS act up, boy will I be Laughing. Daley is a Goof, J-FED is a bigger GOOF and our Command Staff is powerless because MASTERS is running the show. Chicago Police R.I.P, the once best police department is a laughing stock of the nation.
6 rounds? Sounds like a revolversaurus is on the loose on the Miracle Mile!
Don't worry its just some guy that should have been in the County or the Juvenile Center or maybe even some Prison but since there is not a lot of PRO-active policing going on in and around Chicago(due to numerous reasons) AND that our Cook County judges are politically trying to please their voters and keep the numbers down in the Jail and Prisons (due to the economy of course...So do the words NO PROBABLE CAUSE ring a bell amoong other dispositions too)
Then
Shit happens...
Enjoy the summer in the City!
3 bars
they're talking about it on WGN radio now.sounds like it was bullets.cracked the bulletproof window.
. . . it was a brick according to the WGN midnight show people "Steve and Johnnie" . . they state they are too chickenshit to sit in the street-side studio.
Steve admits with all his left wing viewpoints some meanie conservative person might come buy and try to throw something through the window at them.
Liberal pukes.
Gee; I wonder if it was suburban kids who were texting and calling one another?
Did anyone actualy see an active shooter fire at the window? No, then it was not the result of gunfire. It was those wayward birds that smack into the windows that left the holes.
You guys are too silly!
"It's tourist season, SCC. We can't have headlines like that..."
--6/02/2010 12:12:00 AM
Precisely -- and no entity has ever had its nose farther up the rear end of City Hall than WGN Radio -- which considers itself to be if not God, then a very close second.
Repeat after me, in a sonorous, basso, outraged tone -- "Sir. We are WGN." Watch the entire solar system come screeching to a halt.
WLS-TV made it their lead story when some nut drove his car into their studio. I guess such things are beneath the dignity of WGN -- and, as you say, there are the tourists to think of.
This is funny.
When they start shooting in the mayor's hood is going to suppress that, too?
There is no crime,there is no crime,there is no gang problem,the thugs are a figment of your imagination,there is no drug problem.Nothing to see here go away.
"Zell has turned Trib into a tabloid fish-wrap..."
--6/02/2010 07:42:00 AM
Watch yourself.They might still have those Thompson submachine guns they bought to protect their offices back during Prohibition...
doooooooooh....i sees youse guys talkin bout me here agin.dere is no crime here.dat was just a pebble hit dere window.and dont mention da'lympics either.
He should have stayed with Steve Dahl. No one shoots at the Stever!!
If you want your news straight-no chaser, go to www.freerepublic.com for articles printed in newspapers nationwide and worldwide. You WILL NOT find these articles in Chicago newspapers...lefty newspapers cherry pick what they will print.
If you want to hear the best commentary on radio during the 2:00AM to 4:00AM time-slot, go to WLS-AM and listen to Gary and Eric...they know their facts and challenge the listeners to "prove them wrong." Some lefties try, but they fail for obvious reasons.
These two guys are hard-hitting, funny, and they know their politics..give them a listen.
"Steve and Johnnie" they're not, thank God.
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