Chicago Public Schools' is lifting a ban on YouTube as part of its efforts to expand digital learning in the classroom.
Chicago Public Schools' is lifting a ban on YouTube as part of its efforts to expand digital learning in the classroom.
What's a TV station to do when its news anchors are caught on tape fawning over Chicago's mayor in a clear violation of the principles of journalistic objectivity?
Have them removed from the tape, of course.
That's CBS-2's approach to the Walter E. Smithe Furniture commercial now onn the air, which features CBS personalities Bill Kurtis, Walter Jacobson, Rob Johnson and Ryan Baker singing the praises of Mayor Richard M. Daley. Read more...
ABC7 examines the county's spending and finds some outrageous expenditures: "Tens of thousands of dollars were spent in both December and January for landscaping around county buildings and the jail."
Windy Citizen has a lively discussion on the topless woman gracing ChicagoGOP.com, while the man in charge of the site wonders why there's all this attention.
Also, Bill Brady wants his ad off the site. (Sun-Times) Read more...
Candidates for County Board president spent more than $1 million on television advertising in the weeks leading up to the Feb. 2 primary.
And though television attacks ads were few and interest groups stayed off the airwaves, the same can’t be said for the Internet, an unbridled and little regulated bastion of political communication.
Specifically, YouTube, the video sharing site, became a forum for not only candidates to publish campaign ads, but also for others to anonymously share political videos. Read more...
alderman Toni Preckwinkle is surging ahead in the race for Cook County Board president, according to a WGN/Tribune poll released Friday. Clerk of Court Dorothy Brown slipped to second place, while Metropolitan Water Reclamation District President Terrence O’Brien moved to third place. Incumbent Todd Stroger fell to fourth place.
It’s the second poll conducted by the Tribune. An earlier poll, released in early December had Brown in first place.
The poll of 503 likely Cook County voters showed Preckwinkle with 36 percent of the vote. Brown had 24, O’Brien had 16 and Stroger had 11. Fourteen percent of those polled said they were voting for “other” or were undecided. The margin of error was 4.4 percent. Read more...
