Michael Miner (above, left) and John Conroy (below, right)
Tonight on Critical Thinkingon 98.7WFMT Radio Chicago, and via free streaming over wfmt.com, we present the second part of an extended discussion with writer John Conroy and editor and columnist Michael Miner on Chicago's police torture and wrongful conviction scandals and the state of journalism today. In part one, available any time for podcast, download and streaming here, we reviewed the case of recently convicted perjurer John Burge, the former Chicago Police Department commander who tortured perhaps 200 or more Black men over a period of 20 years on Chicago's South Side. Tonight we continue to put the Burge case into the larger context of news media that have neither the interest nor the resources to research and cover such stories and the former Cook County State's Attorney and now Mayor of the City of Chicago Richard M. Daley who has never lifted a finger to address these issues or the crimes committed while he was the state's chief prosecutor in Chicago.
For a view of John Conroy's two decades of work on this story, the vast majority of it for the Chicago Reader where Michael Miner was his editor on many of his landmark stories, and his fate in the new media landscape, see Don Terry's excellent piece in the July/August 2010 issue of the Columbia Journalism Review here.
That's Critical Thinking, tonight from 10 p.m. to 11 p.m. CDT and then posted indefinitely at wfmt.com.
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