{"id":526314,"date":"2021-05-19T15:50:51","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T19:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=526314"},"modified":"2021-05-19T15:50:52","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T19:50:52","slug":"chicago-mayor-lightfoot-to-hold-interviews-with-black-or-brown-journalists-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chicago-mayor-lightfoot-to-hold-interviews-with-black-or-brown-journalists-only\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Mayor Lightfoot to Hold Interviews With \u2018Black or Brown\u2019 Journalists Only"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchicago-mayor-lightfoot-to-hold-interviews-with-black-or-brown-journalists-only%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=526314&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Mayor-Lori-Lightfoot.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot (D.) said Wednesday that she will grant interviews only to &#8220;black or brown&#8221; journalists, according to local reporters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As \u2066@chicagosmayor reaches her two year midway point as mayor, her spokeswoman says Lightfoot is granting 1 on 1 interviews\u2014only to Black or Brown journalists,&#8221; NBC Chicago reporter Mary Ann Ahern <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/maryannahernnbc\/status\/1394766979450425360?s=11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted<\/a> Tuesday. Two local PBS reporters <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/paschutz\/status\/1394767814192504842\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">also<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HeatherCherone\/status\/1394790472359497731\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">confirmed<\/a> Lightfoot&#8217;s policy.<\/p>\n<p>The mayor said her racial restrictions&nbsp;will promote &#8220;diversity and inclusion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a shame that in 2021, the City Hall press corps is overwhelmingly White in a city where more than half of the city identifies as Black, Latino, AAPI or Native American,&#8221; Lightfoot <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chicagosmayor\/status\/1395019807846649861\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted<\/a>. &#8220;Diversity and inclusion is imperative across all institutions including media. In order to progress we must change. This is exactly why I&#8217;m being intentional about prioritizing media requests from POC reporters.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Some local journalists are challenging Lightfoot&#8217;s directive. <em>Chicago Tribune<\/em> reporter Gregory Pratt, who is Hispanic, canceled an interview with the mayor Wednesday after Lightfoot&#8217;s office refused to change its restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Politicians don&#8217;t get to choose who covers them,&#8221; Pratt <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/royalpratt\/status\/1395025840946262017?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear if Lightfoot&#8217;s policy extends to national outlets. MSNBC anchor Stephanie Ruhle, who is white, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/stephanie-ruhle\/watch\/mayor-lightfoot-on-cdc-guidance-they-ve-got-a-lot-of-clarification-that-they-need-to-do-112123973772\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interviewed<\/a> Lightfoot on her show Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic mayors of major U.S. cities have focused on so-called racial equity in the wake of George Floyd&#8217;s death last year. In March, New York City mayor Bill de Blasio (D.) announced the creation of a commission to &#8220;dismantle structural racism for all New Yorkers.&#8221; The commission&#8217;s chairwoman said the committee could recommend reparations for minority residents, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/03\/23\/nyregion\/nyc-racial-justice-commission.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a> to the <em>New York Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot (D.) said Wednesday that she will grant interviews only to &#8220;black or brown&#8221; journalists, according to local reporters. &#8220;As \u2066@chicagosmayor reaches her two year midway point &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2312387,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Mayor-Lori-Lightfoot.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Chicago Mayor Lightfoot to Hold Interviews With \u2018Black or Brown\u2019 Journalists Only","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-526314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Mayor-Lori-Lightfoot.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Chicago Mayor Lightfoot to Hold Interviews With \u2018Black or Brown\u2019 Journalists Only","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2312387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}