The media must veto Lori Lightfoot’s racist interview policy

Published May 20, 2021 4:13pm ET



In response to Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot announcing on Tuesday that she will grant one-on-one interviews only to black and brown journalists, media outlets should refuse to interview her until she changes her racist policy.

Gregory Pratt, a Latino reporter for the Chicago Tribune, tweeted that he “asked the mayor’s office to lift its condition on others and when they said no, we respectfully canceled. Politicians don’t get to choose who covers them.”

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