Media Layoffs
It would take someone with a heart of stone not to laugh....and we don't have that heart:
The axe is falling at WGN-Ch. 9, cutting a wide swath out of “Chicago’s Very Own” TV newsroom.
Eight veteran reporters and anchors were laid off Monday: Sean Lewis, Ray Cortopassi, Bronagh Tumulty, Judy Wang, Julian Crews, Paul Lisnek, Chris Boden and Dean Richards, according to multiple sources familiar with the situation.
[...] The massive downsizing is casting a pall over the newsroom, according to insiders, who say Dallas-based owner Nexstar Media is reducing the station to a shell of its former self.
That's nothing compared with the "pall" assorted media companies have been casting over Chicago, spouting overly-libtarded bull$hit, anti-law-and-order crap, deliberately slanted "reporting" and opinions that don't resonate with half of their supposed audience.
WGN (and pretty much all Chicago media) embraced that philosophy years ago and this reckoning has been long overdue.
Fortunately, there are a bunch of coding jobs that have opened up.
And we heard CPD is hiring - maybe they can demonstrate how much better they can do our job than we did for nearly three decades.
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posted by SCC at 12:05 AM
146 Comments:
It’s because they want what is happening in the UK
https://youtu.be/3WK4xTvgHGw?si=CVtcs3fuyqKp2cly
These supposedly newscasters were the worse - always promoting Marxist policies and ideas. It’s a blessing they are gone. WGN died a long time ago.
Good bye Bronagh. You had an interesting take on speaking Chicago style English, and you will be missed.
Join the CPD, be the change.
They all made their own choices freely and intentionally. However, they all believe each is more essential than the other. Now that the station is losing money and market share, reality is about hitting each other between the eyes.
But WGN holds onto Jarrett Payton and Micah Materre! DEI forever.
https://join.chicagopolice.org/
The idiot media has been bought up by democrat mind set ultra rich people. Now the idiot media employees have become the News. How does it feel that you are getting screwed over and no one cares. The sold their souls to the democrats and now they destroyed their industry.
Say what you will about those who were let go, but I can guarantee that if the 9 who were let go were all black instead of all white there would be screams of RACISM! throughout the city from Conehead on down the line.
Dean Richards idk his politics but I enjoyed his movie reviews and cooking segments
Well said SCC! Well said.
Things that make me go mmmmphhh.....I wonder if there will be an out cry, as it seems all of the former employees, with the exception of Ms. Wang, are people without color. If only the non-hyphenated peoples had someone to speak up on their behalf.
Years back wgn was a really good news show. It is completel garbage now. Look at the layoffs, they all have one thing in common and you don’t have to be in management on cpd to figure it out! lol. All the stations are similar in who they hire and their feel good stories. It’s over my friends
It's a for profit business. Maybe they need content the citizens want and need...
Someone is cleaning house? But here comes the sexual discrimination cases?
The Irish Lady ! 3 weeks before St. Pats …….. Green Racism !
I wrote many emails to the WGN tv production staff over the years, so I feel a little vindicated. And for the record, any replies I did get were always support ing the wrong narrative.
WGN has a long way to go to ever be relevant.
Our local media is unwatchable unless you like to be lied to
I had a wonderful moment reading this when I realized I recognized none of those names. Fuck all mass media.
Wait a minute looks like a lot of people that don’t have the right color skin. Would that be racism? And we even have the Irish girl she’s an immigrant getting rid of an immigrant, but that would be part and parcel of the Democratic scumbags who say one thing and do another, but it is very funny
I get my news from WGN. Although I hate the left BS, I ignore it. Ray is good when he isn't broadcasting leftist BS. I'll kind of miss him.
One would be foolish to think most of these media personnel wouldn’t land a job at another station here in Chicago and if not here somewhere else for a (most likely) substantial pay cut especially Bronagh Tumulty who’s straight off the boat from Ireland….
Pay attention to WGN radio, they are next up for blood letting? The daytime staff are famous for voicing TDS….and Nexstar is a Texas company who is Republican backed?
Paul lisnek, Mr. Im-a-lawyer who worked for the feds. You can trust him
I thought WGN was largely dismantled and reformed into the internet blog NEWSNATION. NN also harbors the likes of Ashleigh Banfield and Chris Cuomo. I rather liked Bronaugh T, she would improve NN.
Used to love WGN and watched it religiously, but they completely alienated the values of my household and we avoid anything they have to ‘report.’
well, maybe, just maybe now the liberal reporters that are still there will actually give the descriptions of the offenders,,,,, yea, I doubt it
Thank the Lord my boy Larry Potash is still anchoring old #9. Paul Lisnek was a complete commie shill.
WGN had that asshole Quigley on yesterday who said he’s boycotting the state of the union address because Trump pardoned the Jan 6th people after they killed 6 police officers! Zero police officers died that day. Lying libtards
WGN is probably the worst one. Which places it at the bottom of a very deep field of garbage. Nothing but anti republican slant non stop. It’s aweful. That bias clown so called “political expert” Paul Lesnik is the worst. I use to watch WGN only for Skilling’s detailed weather forecast but now that he’s gone I turned it off completely.
Could hardly understand Bronagh Tumulty with that Irish brogue..
Looks like they fired an immigrant where are the marches?
Two of the most unqualified ever not the strength of the character, the color of their skin who said that
With the exception of Judy Wang the common trend is White. I wonder how the Gay Male Community is going to handle 3 Openly Gay White Males(1 Jewish) being eaten by the Woke Beast?
Dean Richards is a liberal cuck that thought he was an A list celebrity. F him
Paul Lisnek = Slime Ball
So Far Left WGN Cheerleading for Putzker and Mayor 6% every night didn't pay off?
Larry Pothole and Stoneface in the Morning is the reason I don't watch WGN
Only for the turkeys watching
This morning WGN Larry Potash was asking the mystery guest questions. And asked the guest, Have you been terminated in the past 24 hours? And the whole news crew went silent laughing into thier hands…..
They have been told not to mention it on air!
Let me be the first to say BOO HOO. Get rid of all the media in Chicago...Its a dying breed. People are just to busy and dont care about whats happening in the world anymore. Journalism died when Bill Kurtis and Walter Jacobsen retired! Cant wait for ch 7 to be next!!!
They are following the business model of our newspapers, create news for people who don't watch your news or buy from your advertisers. Next let your viewers realize your on the side of the criminal and against the police. Now push the pro-abortion/all white people are racist/and every illegal needs our money/ narrative and all will be fine.
Good, get rid of all the news goofs in this city!! Turn the lights out on your way out. Want the real news, its right here....SCC & CWB!!
From the Tribune Story: "Akemi Harrison, who was named news director at WGN-TV in August, was reportedly holding group meetings with the newsroom staff Tuesday, ostensibly to discuss the reorganization, according to sources."
Well, that's interesting.
And don't forget Jewel Hillery. Hmmm starting to see a pattern here.
I remember WGN had John Drury and Jack Taylor giving the news…… that’s when WGN was actually a local station with local news…… they died a long time ago……
WGN shit in its nest when they let the Cubs get away!
"Holly Cow Steve! Look at the kid in the Sombreo!"
Payton is alright but I can't stand Micah!
Good bye Paul Lisnek! Won’t miss any of your Democrat slobber one bit. Wish I could have been there to see them hand you your walking papers.
You are kidding right? Potash is a smug, arrogant big time Trump hater .Cant stand that POS.
Bingo! Give this man a ceeegarrrr!
Oh yeah? Then why is Micah and Tamon Bradley still there?
He's a gay journalist with biased movie reviews.
Signed,'
I'm a fucking dork!
WGN is heading into the dumpster fire where the Tribune and SunTimes have landed. If it wasn’t for baseball coverage WGN would already be dead.
WGN hasn't done any actual reporting for awhile. They re-broadcast clips from CNN and NBC. They "interview" commentators from other stations and apparently have some intern browsing the internet for random crap to palm off as "human interest" stories.
oh noes.. not the SuperStation... whatever shall we do? anyhoo, how 'bout dem Indiana Bears?
Dont encourage them to be the Police. We have enough libtards on the job as it is.
This seems to be about money. More on improving the bottom line for the corporate owners. Only problem is when you keep cutting reporters and staff you end up with a crap product that no one wants and cut some more to continue the downward spiral.
The latest wgn hire was a DEI reporter with a speech defect .The thing about hiring from the hood was they know how dangerous the scene is.And report from the front of the police station.You know where all the police are.
Bronagh will be heading back to the great Isle of Eire...much safer there..the only thing she'll have to avoid is the roving groups of Middle Eastern Rape Gangs roaming the cobbled streets of County Kerry now....rumor has it the band, formerly known as the Irish Republican Army is getting back together to play a few shows!
Ode to JJJ: WGN News reporter & anchor cuts:
- 6/9 were White males (Sean Lewis, Ray Cortopassi, Paul Lisnek, Chris Boden, Dean Richards, and Meteorologist Mike Janssen)
- 1 Hispanic male (Julian Crews)
- 1 White woman from Ireland (Bronagh Tumulty)
the wannabe comedians in the morning should have been first...................
Is Bozo still employed?
She sucked anyway couldn't understand a word she said.
the real tragedy here is that pat tomasulo is still employed.
They brought it on themselves. They catered to the few libs that made the most noise and being more truthful and showing 2 sides of the story helped
Lest we forget Winnie
Actually he was a little light in the loafers for prime time.
I miss Bozo, Cookie and Ray Rayner
Time to replace that potato head with an AI bot
The guy was the worst cook ever. He couldn’t make toast.
He sucked up to Hollywood elites like they were relevant.
Good riddance, an AI generated robot would be better
She was a super libtard!!! Won’t miss her. But I liked her Irish accent only for selfish reasons.
I can’t stand the Hispanic reporters who speak better English than me, until a Latin word has to be pronounced like they are from telemundo 🤮
I’m still laughing about Leah hope 🤣🤣 crime is down until it hits you in the face
Agreed. She was interesting for only that reason!
His politics did kinda leak into some of his reviews and interviews, especially what he said about the Butt Bunny halftime show. He flat out said it wasn't as divisive as people said it would be.
I hope abc7 hires bronah just to compete with me shell guy ardo 🤪🤪🤪
Believe it, BECAUSE she's an immigrant she will land on her feet and do just fine.
Wait a sec, have you noticed how vanilla WGN actually is? What color do you think holds the majority of positions at that station? And why make this story about color anyway? Oh, because...
WoW! What did Dean do to get the axe? I think his recap of the Superbowl Halftime show did him in. I will miss quiet lil Joanie! I saw her in person once and she was pretty cool!
I hope he keeps his radio gig!
The Eye on Travel guy just had a segment on his show Saturday claiming Mexico is safe for tourists!l
The U.K. is gone. Attacking a "protected" group over there means jail. (yes the police will and can go after you for a mean tweet or post against a "protedted" group) Look at the grooming gangs. The U.K government was slow to investigate because of the cultural backgrounds of the offenders. The media? Silent. Members of their protected class. Their cover-ups of the grooming gangs make our media look robust, unbiased and fearless.
https://www.thefp.com/p/muslim-grooming-gangs-cover-up-keir-starmer-elon-musk
https://nypost.com/2025/08/19/world-news/uk-free-speech-struggle-30-arrests-a-day-censorship/
micah a left wing, anti Trump ,DEI bozo.. Jarett .. helps that payton is his last name i
Please you cant tell what Dean Richards politics are? You must be blind and deaf. I will give you a hint he not republican. When you turn on the tv next june to the gay parade you wont see him as the lead guy on the WGN float like he has been for 25 years. If you ever spent 10 minutes listening to him on wgn radio you would know.
Good news! Permits are again being issued in the Wyoming coal basin! Coal baby, coal! Great jobs!
If Chubby Brockman gets the ax she can always get work as a water bottle chucker for anti-fuh.
WGN sure has changed from the wholesome days of Family Classics, Ray Rayner, Bozo Circus, Suzy Snowflake, ect…Im sure this isn’t what Philo Farnsworth had in mind when he invented TV.
Just like 40 years ago when CBS radio station 780 gave the dei hires at the station all raises on behest j. jackson. No Whites received raises dei people were being paid at the time the same scale as Whites. The dei hires received double the amount they were receiving.
I just read that Nexstar also gutted their newsrooms at TV stations in L.A. and N.Y.C. as part of a corporate reorganization. The on-air personalities in L.A. put our homely reporters to shame. The Keesing Bandit would say they're "comely!" lol
wgn could cut half the crew at 0900hrs total waste of $$$$$$$$$$$$
She was the best! Wish Tumulty well with whatever’s next.
Send the turkeybird home!
I’m up early morning. At first couldn’t stand the Irish lass but she grew on me and I started to like and figured she wasn’t corrupted yet by this shit city. Now she gone
The two south siders I like just because but food network ain’t far behind from me changing
Get rid of that sow Dina Bair who basically says everything is going to KILL YOU.Talks like she has a medical license but is a clueless leftist talking head.
And WGN's news director is Akemi Harrison.
Lisnek teaches at DePaul he was woke on every issue.
Anonymous
Lest we forget Winnie
2/25/2026 11:24:46 AM
When I first saw her I thought some homeless women grabbed the microphone.
Hahaha.. that was funny
2/25/2026 11:44:15 AM
Yeah, I don’t get that thing about having to pronounce hispanic names with the heavy Spanish accent. When I say an Irish name I don’t speak with a brogue or a German name I don’t pronounce them with a harsh, guttural sound. . It is like an in your face thing. Come on, join the melting pot.
WGN (We Got Nothing) dipshits don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out. Smug, silly, self-important, deceptive, ignorant, self-aggrandizing, liberal unpolished turds. Twisting the truth to fit the Democrat Socialist agenda. Protecting the Prickster, Prickwinkle and Conehead, the" Village Idiot" was a top priority. All dripping with TDS every time they spoke. Most of the time these ass wipes proved themselves untrustworthy, unreliable and lacked candor. Poor excuses for news readers and analysts. Ron Burgandy and his news team put these schleps to shame.
Micah and Tamon are there to turn the lights off.
Well yes, its Chicago. It's supposed to work that way. Race baiting is the Chicago Way; it's the Democrat Way.
Huh?
They fired all the white guys lmao
I'm glad that broadcast NASCAR races now!
Great move considering they don't have Cubs Baseball games! WOO HOO!
Let it rip. The daily radio line up is less than exciting - Sirott, Williams, Dent, Langecker and James. Too many geriatric talkers in the mediocre lineup. Where is Ron Burgandy?
Agreed.
Good riddance to Dean Richards. The last straw as far as I'm concerned was on the Morning News show when he mentioned all of the comedians appearing in Chicago during Comedy Week except for Joe Machi, obviously because he works for Gutfeld on Fox News.
Where's len o connor and fahey flynn?
Oh honey, I don't listen to them on the radio I listen reserve that for real news :) I'll leave in wgn 9 on in the background for the silliness
Speech thing might be dental work
Bring back Orion Samuelson.
I absolutely love WGN......
Been around for a long time @ the crew is great!!!!!!!!
FUCK the bears no matter where they play!
And that goes for the rest of the LEO-hating nfl as well!!
Unfortunately, Dean Richards still maintains employment at WGN Radio. He is suffering from terminal TDS and is obsessed with Covid.
Go Woke Go BROKE.......I stoped watching a long t time ago when everything they talked about was Anti TRUMP.......
Actually, two civilians died officer involved deaths, so it's the complete opposite of what Quigley said.
First take their jobs, then their dignity. Public humiliation and being locked in the stocks is what these criminals deserve
Finally TRUTH is spoken.
Ha ha WGN news is pure shit
You’re not getting news, you’re getting propaganda.
Wake up!
yea, ok, thanks cuddly Dudley
Ok Larry P
6ft under
Dina has to be the most BORING person at WGN (We Got Nothing) news. Another one that needs to retire and become a Librarian.
You just described all of media. Sickening what they have become and it will be a grand day when they have to answer for their misleading the public.
Please fire Lourdes Duarte ! The biggest anti-Police reporter !
Know and understand that that woman was the victim of a heinous domestic violence attack and was severly injured and disfigured. She endured reconstructive surgery regarding her jaw and teeth and had to learn to speak again.
She's brave to go out there and do the best she can in the field she trained and loves to do. Shame on you for talking shit about stuff you know nothing about.
Somehow in your infinite display of wisdom you left out Judy Wang
apologies, I meant Judy
What's wrong with that?
Right on!
IMO it's a cop out to take the knee jerk reaction "Well all the Chicago media, all the national media, all of Hollywood is "liberal, Leftist Liars".
I'm 64, I've heard American conservatives bitching and moaning about the "Liberal Media" my entire life. Why don't any of these Conservatives start media that tells the truth about crime, racial realities in a fair non hateful way?
Fox News (now has gotten pretty lame after the purge of Tucker Carlson and anyone that dared hint that they didn't go along with the Neo Conservatives endlessly wars, regime changes in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and now Ukraine, soon Iran).
But, the Fox News Rupert Murdoch, Roger Ailes model was a success because Fox News featured...
More honest reporting from a Center Right , patriotic position, not PC, Lib Woke AND. (this is key)
Fox News featured very attractive women presenters and tough guy males such as Bill O'Reilly.
The American public likes this - hearing more truthful reporting from a non Woke, non Libtard, more patriotic perspective
AND
Yes, the public likes to see attractive women presenters.
Why can't someone here in Metro Chicago like that $ Billionaire hedge fund guy Griffin , the one who gave all the money to the Museum of Science and Industry - why can't this Griffin guy or the Rickets family. (Owns the Cubs) but up some local TV station and present...
Yes, more honest local media coverage about crime, less cop bashing, immigration and racial realistic reporting in a non hateful, more honest way and yes, feature attractive women presenters?
IMO That would be a sure fire business success...
But...
Conservative would rather just bitch and moan about "Those gosh darn liberals" then play golf on Saturday and binge watch 10 hours of NFL football on Sunday.
Sigh.
They didn’t have to worry about making a profit when those USAID dollars were rolling in. I’m going to feel like Flounder watching multiple left leaning media outlets go under, “Oh boy, is this great!”
I miss those farm reports….
"I use to watch WGN only for Skilling’s detailed weather forecast but now that he’s gone I turned it off completely."
2/25/2026 07:42:57 AM
Tom is the real deal - a true scientist who loves his work and a consummate gentleman and scholar, reminiscent of the greats who populated the academic societies of the 17th , 18th, and 19th centuries - where anyone was welcome to walk in and present a paper, speak about what might be a very important discovery. As busy as Tom is, he found a minute for me to reply to my e-mail about a weather phenomenon.
"WGN sure has changed from the wholesome days of Family Classics, Ray Rayner, Bozo Circus, Suzy Snowflake, etc..."
2/25/2026 02:01:06 PM
That is what I grew up with on the old B/W blond-wood Magnavox. You could leave a kid there while you ironed the laundry with total confidence that your boy would not be surgically altered into a girl by dinnertime without your knowledge.
Like so many other things today - the substance has been scooped out, leaving only the shell for "nostalgia."
It wasn't news anymore - all of the channels became six-person mutually-supporting, self-congratulatory, perpetual cooking shows - shameless free promos and parties for the opening of every new "bistro" and "boutique" in town.
As with the eight-page, five-dollar "newspapers" - farewell.
Hope Dean doesn’t start working the streets.
WGN, hurtling towards IDIOCRACY at a breakneck speed.
"Bring back Orion Samuelson."
2/26/2026 12:05:56 AM
Farm report, right?
Manufactured simultanouz buzz today - US, UK, EU - is that rural areas "are inherently non-inclusive and racist."
Food comes from gas stations. Everyone knows that.
Amazing how spoiled Oak Park trust-fund babies become "Chicagoans" after busting Mom up into a suitcase...
https://www.foxnews.com/us/chicago-man-deported-from-bali-after-prison-release-murder-arrested-flight-back-us
The “alleged” (even though there was video proof) water bottle chucker finally got the ax. That’s a shame.
NOTHING is the same anymore..I would wecome back the GOOD OL DAYS anytime.
She did!
It wasn't news anymore - all of the channels became six-person mutually-supporting, self-congratulatory, perpetual cooking shows - shameless free promos and parties for the opening of every new "bistro" and "boutique" in town.
2/26/2026 07:30:19 PM
So true. Local media in general is more concerned with doing local public interest stories that in the grand scheme of things mean absolutely nothing, and gloss over, or completely ignore glaring issues that would actually be newsworthy.
Give the masses bread and circuses while quietly, behind the scenes, they push the lefts agenda like a relentless tide. The anti-ICE news director Brockman was finally axed today. Sure she has anti-fuh on speed dial so she will land in her feet. Lord help us.
💯 I’m black and was discriminated against but I have to agree… Democrats always yell racism as a scare tactic to deceive minorities to keep voting Democrat…. Vote Trump 3rd term‼️ Everybody loved 💜 Trump before he started exposing corruption… I’m no longer Bamboozled‼️
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