Good Weekend Read

Sometimes you have to take your time and direct your attention to a longer written article that really gets into the meat of an issue. 

This Contrarian article is one of them:

• 2025 was another banner year for Chicago media. Over the past year, what news consumers experienced in Chicago was more overt political bias in ostensibly neutral news media. Business as usual for Chicago’s print, television, radio, and digital media figures, in 2025, reporters continued to demonstrate their utter intolerance with opposing views and became less trusted to separate fact from fiction in the delivery of the news. 

  Whether it was covering up or whitewashing Mayor Brandon Johnson’s incompetence and mammoth failures as mayor or throwing a tantrum at Department of Homeland Security agencies enforcing immigration law in Chicago, in 2025, Chicago media confirmed their intent to serve as a protective chrysalis for politicians and groups they favor. 

  It was once a non-negotiable duty to maintain a strict pose of neutrality in the reporting of the news. However, instead of asking questions and learning a story, media figures in Chicago persist in their habit of creating news. With Chicago media simply disinclined to fulfill the core journalistic duty of telling the truth or holding powerful people accountable for their actions, contributors to Contrarian have collected some of the most egregious examples of biased journalism in Chicago for 2025. While some reporters profiled here are regulars, in this installment of “Worst in Chicago Media,” there are some new arrivals, including our worst journalist for the year. 

The Contrarian starts there, and then names names along with cited examples of the worst of Chicago "reporters" and their so-called "reporting."

Media trust is at an all-time low across the country and the Chicago media is doing their part to demonstrate that just when you think they're at rock-bottom, they find a shovel and start digging a basement.

Go read it all - it's good.