Twitter as News?

So this happened prior to the funeral Monday:

• As a nationwide search for the man accused of murdering Chicago Police Officer Luis Huesca continues, his family is asking Mayor Brandon Johnson and Gov. JB Pritzker to stay away from his funeral today, according to three reports and the Illinois State Comptroller.

  Mary Ann Ahern of NBC5 and Courtney Spinelli of WGN-TV both shared that information on Twitter, citing sources. Ahern said the governor would honor the family’s request.

  The reports both said Huesca’s family shared their wishes with Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza when she attended the officer’s wake on Sunday. Mendoza confirmed on Monday morning that she and Rep. Angelica Guerrero Cuellar (22nd) relayed the information to Johnson personally.

Fata$$ immediately said he'd stay away. There's wasn't a buffet anyway, so it was an easy decision.

It took Conehead until an hour prior to the funeral to decide to cancel his plans to exploit the death of an Officer. 

Lib-tarded "progressive" scumbag head of COPA Andrea Kersten had to be asked to leave the wake twice as she positions herself to run for mayor in three years.

The obvious message here is that politicians who condemn the police with one breath, are not welcome to express insincere condolences when the laws and policy decisions they champion directly contribute to the deaths of those same Officers so they can pretend to be law-and-order candidates next election.

And aside from the CWB reporting and the Contrarian X/Twitter feed, no mainstream media outlets reported the family's wishes....because it would have been embarrassing to those exploiting the Officer's death.

But....do you see the highlighted links in the CWB report up top? Those are X/Twitter feeds to reports that the editors refused to broadcast, but the reporters tried to get the word out anyway. Maybe to preserve the "scoop" but also, to actually do their jobs and inform the public.

We have no real idea how X/Twitter works. We can barely understand eBlogger and we keep our social media footprint deliberately small. But it is looking more and more like the big media companies are dying and the smaller micro-platforms may be the only truth being told.

UPDATE: The Tribune Editorial Staff takes a swipe at Susana Mendoza for revealing the family request for un-supportive politicians to stay away from the funeral, calling it a "political opportunity for a mayoral humiliation." 

Fuck them. If anyone needs to be humiliated, it's Conehead. And Fata$$. And Kersten. Bravo to Mendoza for letting everyone know that if you support a anti-police agenda, you aren't welcome at police funerals. That should be the bottom line.

We're still holding out hope she runs for mayor again in a few years.