Media Accountability?
- Chicago Tribune columnist Eric Zorn owes the citizens of Chicago, including its police officers, a column about an impending federal trial in a civil lawsuit brought by attorneys representing Stanley Wrice.
Zorn owes the public this column because he needs to explain whether he thinks Wrice is truly innocent of the vicious rape and severe burning of Karen Byron in 1982, a crime so vicious that Wrice was sentenced to 100 years in prison even though Byron survived the attack and the treatments she received at the Loyola Burn Center.
Zorn has never held back making known his opinion about the conduct of detectives on dozens of so-called wrongful convictions going back decades, including the two main ones involving the Wrice investigation, retired detectives Jack Byrne and Pete Dignan. In fact, Zorn’s career at the Tribune could reasonably be described as being the most outspoken voice in the Chicago media claiming false convictions based upon corrupt police.
And those articles throughout the years from Zorn and his cohorts at the Tribune often come out on the verge of a trial in these cases, often precipitating a settlement by a city guided as much by media pressure as any pesky rules of evidence.
Go read Preib's entire article.
posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
64 Comments:
While this article is true. Is that all this guy ever does is write long winded articles about shit that has very little to do with a daily beat cops job. How about Agatha Christie focuses at least 5 minutes on the contract negotiations instead of getting paid by our does to pursue his hobby.
Eric Zorn:
A smug and smarmy shit-ass...
How much money has been kicked back to him
over the years for using his editorial
bully pulpit to spring murdering and
raping violent criminals and having them
turned loose on an unsuspecting public?
"The Police are what's wrong with Chicago..."
I can't stand to see Zorn's face much less read his column. We got rid of the Communist Tribune a few years ago. I know if I look at it, it will aggravate me. It's just the propaganda arm of the Democrat Party.
You'd be hard-pressed to find two finer homicide detectives than Jack Byrne and Pete Dignan. I enthusiastically vouch for their integrity, courage and expertise,
Gone are the days when two old friends and managing editors at the Tribune, George deLama and Hanke Gratteau could keep a delusional Eric Zorn from writing such trash. Also kudos to Bill Crawford. All three left the Tribune before it became a dying clusterfuck.
The media is full of narcissists.
No way anyone in the the media will ever sincerely apologize for anything. Any demands for an apology will be met with a snarky, passive-aggressive response that will undoubtedly justify their wrong-ness
The media nowadays is like the dirtiest whore in the whorehouse. The constant misrepresentation and manipulation of facts should be a crime. The mighty chicago police department is one of the most favorite targets of these bunch of lushes.
I wonder how many pairs of pants that Eric
'Mr. Shiny Seats' Zorn has worn out performing his duties
as a tabletop computer warrior. He carved out a niche for
himself, and like you say, calculated the release of his
articles in an attempt to influence outcomes. With newspaper
circulation on the wane, I just wonder if his superiors gave
him the green light in an attempt to boost anemic revenues.
These are cheap shots.
Somehow when I hear about Zorn, it makes me think
of tights, capes, and phone booths. Sort of fits with
the journalism career.
yellow journalism
Exactly what number does this Monday morning QB wear?
So eager to make that buck
Zorn went write on Wrice
You get the loudest noise from empty barrels
In 1975 George Carlin developed a routine on oxymorons.
At that time "Media Accountability" was not on the list.
In the unlikely event of a sudden loss of cabin pressure,
oxygen masks will drop down from the panel above
your head
Don't get upset! Newspapers are irrelevant today and two bit journalists are totally irrelevant!!! This guy has no following and nobody reads his column.
What's relevant is that President Donald Trump makes these lunatics deranged!
Marty....your otherwise excellent article that makes a legitimate cry for actions of justice on behalf of our hardworking detectives was marred by a single mistake that could jeopardize the possibility that it ever crosses the Mayor’s desk. Everyone knows that mayors have gatekeepers...those individuals who sift through hundreds of documents and whittle them down to the few that the mayor may actually make time to read. Historically, the Chief of Staff is the Mayor’s main gatekeeper. The COS is not a pickle named Claussen. His name is Classen. And if you think that’s not a big deal, just consider how much you enjoy being referred to as Mr. Probe. Taking the time to get the little things right, especially in written correspondence, reflects attention to detail that demands respect. For the sake of all of us that you represent, please do a better job of it moving forward.
To the 1st poster-you do not get it. This has everything to do with a “daily beat cop,” you just can’t connect the dots. Preib is the only person who has stood up to the anti-cop media and is the only thing that’s slowed down the Loevys’ and PLO’s path to over 1 billion in outstanding “liability” from fake wrongful convictions, and slowed their control over Springfield and City Hall. Without Preib doing this we’d have a zero funded pension, weeks of Burge curriculum at CPS, a giant anti-Burge monument and no political leverage for a contract increase at all. You’d be operating under directives written completely by the ACLU and would be raising a family in a City with no hope at all. I can’t stand lazy kids on this job who can’t read and think for themselves. I understand why my neighbor or non-police family members don’t see it, but it’s your job to educate them. It’s people like you that stood by and let this happen, so when you get fired or worse for doing your job and can’t understand how it happened, read Preib’s books and posts and you’ll understand.
I see the first poster used the term “daily beat cop,” so it’s probably Eric Zorn.
Now they want a monument built to honor Burge's "victims". They want the City to assist with site acquisition and financing. The Mayor's office is taking it under "advisement".
Insanity rules.
The contract, pension and pay are issues that are more of a concern to us than anything else. The FOP doesn't need to go to war with the Trib. The Sun Times sells 200,000 papers in an area of 4 million. Not really relevant in 2019.
Thanks, John "Northside" Northen, for the compliment. The days of detectives being allowed to do real police police work to solve murders are long gone, as you well know, my friend, never to return, thanks to to the Marxist, socialist liberals who run this town.
this guy needs the treatment of a SCC nickname.
the tribune is worse than the NYT
At 12:15 are you serious? Are you that clueless or just that dishonest? Have you been to the contract negotiations or checked to see who has? If you did you would see Marty Preib. Your statement is so false and deceitful and is no different than Eric Zorn. You do a disservice to Marty and the members. Shame on you
OT: Look who is a judge - https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-met-cara-smith-anne-burke-appointed-judge-20190607-story.html#nt=oft13a-1gp1
The Tribune used to be a solid conservative newspaper, the opposite of the Slum Times. Those days are LONG OVER. Both papers have been losing readers steadily, but the Tribune has rejected their core values in the last few years. Its not that it was ever pro police, but at least they usually gave actual FACTS in the narratives published in accounts involving the police. They now run the same slanted BULLSHIT that the other rag publishes.
In trying to appeal to the left, it has steadily hired more and more idiots like Zorn, Huppke, Dahleen etc. Glad to cancel my subscription. Good fucking riddance!
"Gone are the days when two old friends and managing editors at the Tribune, George deLama and Hanke Gratteau could keep a delusional Eric Zorn from writing such trash. Also kudos to Bill Crawford. All three left the Tribune before it became a dying clusterfuck."
Second that. Trib be dead to accountability.
Zorn is the smug jester who typifies modern cultural suicide. Fool because he thinks we live in a world full of pure victims and purely bad police oppressors. Smug because his parents didn't teach him to reach back, grab his ears, and pull his head out of his own a@@.
Zorn is a pos anti cop progressive who uses his paper to empower feral predators and make Chicago increasingly unsafe. He is told to do this by Dold . He is no different than cop hater Lori water carrier Chris Fusco at the scum times and Cabrini Kim’s mouthpiece Matt Hendrickson.
Anonymous said...
While this article is true. Is that all this guy ever does is write long winded articles about shit that has very little to do with a daily beat cops job. How about Agatha Christie focuses at least 5 minutes on the contract negotiations instead of getting paid by our does to pursue his hobby.
6/08/2019 12:15:00 AM
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Shit that has very little to do with a “beat cop’s job”... are you kidding me? Are you a police officer? Wait, a house mouse at 35th St. doesn’t count, nor does the dog in CAPS or working inside for that matter.
If you did a single bit of police work in your career you’d understand what’s happening to “the police” and the personal attack the media in general, but in this case what the local media has done to destroy the police officers and detectives in Chicago.
If you have an issue with the contract, and you should because We all do, voice it to the Union, but DONT EVER minimize what happened to the officers & detectives before you son.
Zorn teaches at Northwestern’s School of Journalism. The same school that lost its accreditation after the story broke that they were pimping out female students in order to get convicts off.
What those that listen to these "journalists " don't understand is that the media, in all its forms is a for profit business. When profit becomes the driving force, objectivity and the truth become a secondary priority. A for profit media and media accountability cannot coexist.
You can probable find fuck stick Zorn singing "Michael Row the Boat Ashore" at the Old Town School with that other old liberal Mary Schmich. This dick recently wrote an article explaining that Illinois isn't a tax and spend state and that your state taxes are actually low. Of course he conveniently doesn't calculate the newly passed taxes OR the local tax burden which taken with the state taxes are driving people from the state. Zorn never saw a tax he didn't love or a cop he didn't blame.
Eric Zorn is mentally ill. Besides being a full-blown leftist and documented liar, the guy is bat-shit crazy. If you look up: 'Barking Mad Moonbat', you'll find Eric Zorn's photo and biography.
He even provides the proof that he should be residing in a Padded Cell in his recent column where he gives his reasons on switching from being a 'Die-hard' Cubs Fan to a White Sox Fan.
And no, it's not Donald Trump or the Ricketts family support of President Trump, though he touches on those subjects. His 'reason' for abandoning the Cubbies is because Tom Ricketts signed a TV deal with.... Sinclair Broadcasting.
You read that right, in Zorn's twisted mind Sinclair Broadcasting is the go-to Media Conglomerate of Nazis, White Supremacists, Islamaphobes, the Ku Klux Klan, Homophobes, and the mean guy in the 7th Grade who gave Zorn noogies every other day. And he just can't abide by any of that, so the Cubs are dead to him.
Okay, I made the part about the 7th grade up.
In any case, it's plain to see that Eric Zorn is mentally ill.
Anonymous said...
While this article is true. Is that all this guy ever does is write long winded articles about shit that has very little to do with a daily beat cops job. How about Agatha Christie focuses at least 5 minutes on the contract negotiations instead of getting paid by our does to pursue his hobby.
6/08/2019 12:15:00 AM
Agreed I have said it before and I will say it again, Prieb uses his position to further Prieb’s wrongful conviction writings. Time for him to go.
It appears nowadays everyone in prison for murders and rapes is innocent according to the liberals.
As long as the media acts as an arm of the leftist, deepstate government, there will be no accountability other than Gitmo or the gallows, after the trials of course.
The Tribune at 1 time in a galaxy far away the Trib was a fair paper, but then morons like zorn had a place and free rein for his propaganda and the trib fell and keeps rapidly failing. Like the Times they are owned by the democrats and they get fed by the democratic party and that is what they report. Look at the times mary mitchell, and the tough guy wife beater neil steinberg,same thing scum but they are still employed hopefully the bottom falls out quickly and they are both relegated to working selling bullshit on the corners nothing but scum!
I gather Mr. Zorn wasn't too pleased with the FOP's blog entry. From the first response, one which was lodged at 12:15, I am assuming Mr. Zorn was up late last evening, awaiting an opportunity to assail Preib for daring to contradict him over Zorn's unyielding support for turning hardened criminals back on to the streets. I don't know which is worse: Zorn's dishonest columns or the fact he is so thin-skinned he trolls a police blog to continue anonymously attacking police.
Everyone readi g this blog should cancel fibune subscriptions, and NEVER click on an aticle. Convince everyone you know to do tge same. Also write letters to the fibune advertisers and say you're not buyi g their products as long as the fibune distrespects police and fibd.
Do the same for the slum times, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, etc. Vote with your pocketbook to empty their pocketbooks.
1 person's complaint and funding stop, is the equivalent of 500 who remain silent.
Zorn is another one of the hypocritical "Social Justice Warriors" at the Tribune/WGN-AM that pretend to be part of the struggle, all the while making six & seven figure salaries and living in the Whitest, wealthiest, most gentrified neighborhoods in Chicago! They're all part of that "eat me last" mentality.
“Go read Preib's entire article.“
Meh, I’ll pass.
I’ll devote time from my busy day to read what he has to contribute when it involves something that directly affects the membership... you know, like the contract negotiations.
I agree with a poster from another thread... Preib needs to devote more time to topics other than his personal passions. He’s a gifted writer, that much is certain, but he’s never been the police. And writing a book about his experiences working a wagon in a slow district don’t mean shit either. He needs to start concentrating his efforts on things that are good for US AS A MEMBERSHIP.
"Eric Zorn: Pumping out whatever it takes to make a buck, even if it's raw sewage."
Is it really worth it to drive like a maniac to this kind a ghetto bullshit;
Cops hustling to call of person shot collide with dump truck, causing diesel fuel leak in Humboldt Park
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-met-dump-truck-crash-20190608-story.html
Come on now millennial coppers it’s not worth it take it from a veteran you are your mind to race like this what if their truck would’ve blew up what would your families have done?Racing like a maniac not worth it is it think about it is your life worth the bullshit? Is it worth being burned having injuries for this course it’s not you’re just stopped acting stupid like that “Barry Obama” quote!Is it worth a civil suit? Is it worth your life is it worth being injured? If you say yes you’re out of your mind you must get off the job immediately and do something else it’s not worth it just not worth it!
I think I might have stolen his lunch money in H.S.
didn't see some of the stories, but.....Jack Byrne, John Northern, etc....were the best of the best.....and the former detectives who worked hard over the years.....God bless them.....this latest group of liberal politicians have no idea what it means to combat the thugs..... #201
maybe Mr Zorn should buy or rent a home in Englewood.....that would be a hoot
Pete Dignan was a cops cop and the one you wanted to investigate any homicide.
Media accountability?
Surely you jest.
Apparently the police are the only ones who have accountability.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
The Tribune at 1 time in a galaxy far away the Trib was a fair paper, but then morons like zorn had a place and free rein for his propaganda and the trib fell and keeps rapidly failing. Like the Times they are owned by the democrats and they get fed by the democratic party and that is what they report. Look at the times mary mitchell, and the tough guy wife beater neil steinberg,same thing scum but they are still employed hopefully the bottom falls out quickly and they are both relegated to working selling bullshit on the corners nothing but scum!
6/08/2019 12:42:00 PM
Now that the fake media are starting to lose their jobs due to falling profits, they can take the same advice that Obama gave to coal industry workers after he regulated the coal industry out if business, "learn to code."
I wonder if Eric Zorn and Pee Wee Herman go to the movies together? ♠️
Hey SCC. Heard something interesting. Supposedly Mayor Lightfoot was asked to leave when she was Director of Procurement. She was conducting shady deals with the politically connected. Think about it. She was never properly vetted, especially by the media in this town. Someone knows something out there.
Zorn is from Michigan and lives in Old Irving, enough said! He’s barely making 6 figures for the Trib, but I’ll let you know-it-all’s run with the 6 and 7 figure but. Regardless, he is a transplanted holier than thou asshole who deserves any grief he gets.
It’s best to just stop giving a flying fuk about any of it. Easier!
zorn is one of the original virtue signalling bleeding heart morons.
Blogger I Fart In Your General Direction said...
“Go read Preib's entire article.“
Meh, I’ll pass.
I’ll devote time from my busy day to read what he has to contribute when it involves something that directly affects the membership... you know, like the contract negotiations.
I agree with a poster from another thread... Preib needs to devote more time to topics other than his personal passions. He’s a gifted writer, that much is certain, but he’s never been the police. And writing a book about his experiences working a wagon in a slow district don’t mean shit either. He needs to start concentrating his efforts on things that are good for US AS A MEMBERSHIP.
6/08/2019 01:58:00 PM
Meh, I'll pass on your comments. He is the only articulate spokesman we have.
What those that listen to these "journalists " don't understand is that the media, in all its forms is a for profit business. When profit becomes the driving force, objectivity and the truth become a secondary priority. A for profit media and media accountability cannot coexist.
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Wrong. Media cares not about short-term profits, but about control of narrative. Keep the focus off the real issues while filling columns and segments with sentimental drivel interspersed with propaganda.
Billionaire Media owners, and there only is a small few, are in it for the Communism payout. Pravda, baby.
Preib fights for us. He doesn't advertise everything he has done or is doing for us. Many Officers have won because of Preib and Preib alone. Talk to a P.O. that he has helped . You may learn something
instead of just running your mouth. Preib does what is right, he doesn't care about the money or anything else except standing up and fighting for us when the city wants to screw us. Preib is in the right spot.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
What those that listen to these "journalists " don't understand is that the media, in all its forms is a for profit business. When profit becomes the driving force, objectivity and the truth become a secondary priority. A for profit media and media accountability cannot coexist.
>>>>>>>>
Wrong. Media cares not about short-term profits, but about control of narrative. Keep the focus off the real issues while filling columns and segments with sentimental drivel interspersed with propaganda.
Billionaire Media owners, and there only is a small few, are in it for the Communism payout. Pravda, baby.
6/09/2019 01:19:00 AM
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The media speak the truth at times, lie at times, but always ignore certain other truths. They focus on the one truth they want to focus on, distorting the whole. We all know this. They have lost all integrity and truly are the enemy of the people.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
What those that listen to these "journalists " don't understand is that the media, in all its forms is a for profit business. When profit becomes the driving force, objectivity and the truth become a secondary priority. A for profit media and media accountability cannot coexist.
>>>>>>>>
Wrong. Media cares not about short-term profits, but about control of narrative. Keep the focus off the real issues while filling columns and segments with sentimental drivel interspersed with propaganda.
Billionaire Media owners, and there only is a small few, are in it for the Communism payout. Pravda, baby.
6/09/2019 01:19:00 AM
Bingo! Just like the Social Media giants. Controlling the narrative is everything to them.
To poster 6/8/2019 1215 I totally disagree with your statement. What Preib writes about has everything to do with law enforcement, especially in todays investigative in virement. One of the reasons (there are many) why there is virtually no co-operation with follow up investigators is because of columnist such as Zorn who constantly writes negative articles regarding law enforcement. Look at recent Police Involved incidents where the use of deadly force was used. How many positive articles have there been written such use of force. Has Zorn or in fact has anyone else written a positive article where there was use of deadly force by the Police? Yes I agree that Preib has a passion regarding the Wrongful Convection Movement. HAVE YOU EVER ASKED PREIB WHY HE HAS THIS PASSION? Preib understands that the wrongful conviction movement has lead to very serious problems that confronts Law Enforcement today. Preib has taken the fight against some very powerful Law Firms in this City who specializes in suing the City due to the actions of members of the CPD. The Wrongful Conviction Movement has been the catalyst for the on slot number of law suites against department members. How many law suits does it take for a Department Member to say," That is it, from now on I am only doing the bare minimal. I am going to just answer my radio assignments. I am not going to be aggressive." Do you honestly believe that because of this on slot of law suites haven't has this effect? Another result of the Wrongful Conviction Movement is the ease the City settle these law suites? How many Department Members have been sued for DOING THIER JOB AND AS A RESULT OF DOING THIER JOB HAVE BEEN SUED AND THE CITY SETTLED WITHOUT THE OFFICER(S) BEING ABLE TO DEFEND THEMSELVES. As a direct result of the City settling these law suites and the Officer(s) who could not defend themselves now have that on their permeate personal record. Look at the totally disrespect for Law Enforcement in today's society. In part, this disrespect for Law Enforcement is a direct of the Wrongful Conviction Movement. How many articles does it take for a person to read about all these Wrongful Conviction Cases and develop a anti-police attitude? As a direct result of the Wrongful Conviction Movement then Governor George Ryann commuted every death row sentence to life in prisonment. By comminuting every death row inmates death sentence how many offenders got the nothing is going to happen to me anyhow so the next time they get involved with the police instead of fearing the Police then show outward contempt. Here is another result of the Wrongful Conviction Movement: The election of Kim Foxx as Cook County States Attorney was a result in part to the Wrongful Conviction Movement. She used the Wrongful Conviction Movement as part of her platform to reform the Criminal Justice System. As a direct result in the Wrongful Conviction Movement grew the Torture Commission. The Torture Commission is recommending many cases were offenders killed Police Officers and had their convictions overturned. The one that comes to mind is one the Wilson Brothers being freed from Prison and it looks like he is going to win the Ghetto Lottery> The other issue I take with your post is when you criticize him about not writing contract negotiations. Have you ever heard of any Union giving it's membership a daily briefing on contract negotiations? Did you criticize Dean Angelo, Mark Donahue, Bill Nolan and John Denien, when they were presidents and their lack of candor during contract negotiations? I was a FOP Representative during the John Denien regime and I can remember going to meetings and one of the biggest complaints was that the Union was not giving he membership any indications on contract negotiations.
That little asshole Zorn says that he will no longer be a cubs fan because of their owners politics.
Now he wants to be a White Sox fan! What a loyal fan he is! We don’t want him as a Sox fan!
He just doesn’t get it, but would never realize that your a team fan and the owners don’t matter, except to be booed.
Mike Hunt said...
"zorn is one of the original virtue
signalling bleeding heart morons."
6/08/2019 10:21:00 PM
He's a worse than typical white-guilt addled
liberal progressive who thinks his virtue
signal to the perpetually aggrieved, always
angry and hateful peoples an' folkses to
"please don't eat me first" is going to
keep his narrow, craven, surrender monkey ass
from getting cooked in the large social justice
stew pot when THEY finally become empowered
enough to dictate uneven terms of surrender
to the rest of everybody else...
That's why it's so important to THEM
that The Police be driven to "having
church under a bushel basket."
And these soft handed, wet-eyed liberals
are hysterical in their insistence that
the world is going to have a fucking Coke
together and sing in harmony.
...While blissfully ignoring the precedence
set by the last 12K years of human history...
Knowledge/REAL education, facts, discernment
and the ability to think and reason for yourself
contrary to what the "trend setters" say, makes
you a mean, insensitive some-kind-of-phobe
and a RACIST.
Fuck Zorn and all of his gleefully willfully ignorant,
mis-mothered/un-fathered, upright society hating
fellow travelers.
Preib is totally underrated. This guy is top notch - every article. Thanks for doing what you do, P.O. Preib - KEEP IT UP some of us really appreciate it.
"Zorn is from Michigan and lives in Old Irving …" Yes. I know. Looked it up a while ago, out of curiosity. Public record. Lives in a $500,000 + home! Englewood it ain't! Wifey's a six-figure lib too!
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