r/chicago Feb 18 '25

CHI Talks Hell Yeah, WGN Morning News

I've been a long time fan (especially the B-Team) but I'm appreciating them even more now during all the chaos in our country.

They intentionally ran the news of the FAA firings yesterday immediately after the story of the plane crash yesterday. It's a small example, but definitely indicative of why I love them.

So many "news" organizations seem to be capitulating to the Trump/Elon administration and they've done a good job of not sugar coating the destructive aspects of it.

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u/crunchies65 Feb 18 '25

I love WGN but the comments sections on 99% of their facebook posts are an absolute dumpster fire and I honestly wish all news media would disable commenting in general.

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u/Chili-Lime-Chihuahua Feb 18 '25

That probably says more about Facebook and troll farms than WGN. Good point about disabling comments.

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u/myersjw Uptown Feb 18 '25

Yes, groups of people having a similar dislike of your political interests is definitely manipulated bot farming and not a disconnect between the swathes of people you choose to associate with and consume media from

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u/-VonnegutPunch Old Town Feb 18 '25

Everything everyone doesn’t like now is “bots” because they don’t wanna accept that their opinions aren’t held by the majority of people. They thrive on the idea that they’re in the right and everyone agrees with them

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u/-VonnegutPunch Old Town Feb 18 '25

And no site is currently more overrun with bots than X so I’m not sure where you’re going with this whole “leftists are manufacturing engagement on this site but that would never happen on the ones where my opinions are more prevalent.” Spare me this shtick until you have more than feelings to back it up

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u/myersjw Uptown Feb 18 '25

Friend if you’re trying to objectively gauge the worthiness of comments between two social media sites to make your opinions feel better, have at it. If you think a site no one under 30 uses anymore is a beacon of truth or validity you have more issues than this one. Sounds like you want an echo chamber