Cliches and distraction
opinion Transparency. The people’s right to know. Un-American. Treasonous. Political firestorm. Constitutional crisis. These cliches, exaggerations and emotional charges have……
Author: William H. Freivogel
When the fake is real and real is “fake”
Opinion In one universe — the universe of facts and reality — Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III is painstakingly……
Press stronger, Trump weaker after one year
No president has created more media. No president is such a creation of media. No president has expressed such disdain……
Illinois’ ‘independent’ news network publishes pro-Rauner propaganda
‘Hyperlocal’ news written from afar This report is the work of an investigative reporting class in the School of Journalism……
Reporting local news from thousands of miles away
The journalists’ beats are small Illinois towns. But the reporters live, work and write in Idaho, Texas, Oregon and British……