By Steve Rhodes
Here’s the Beachwood’s abbreviated but still exclusive Oscars coverage.
The #ChicagoOscar for Executive Producer of a Mockumentary goes to Rahm Emanuel, for “Forrest Claypool Is The World’s Greatest Apparatchik To Ever Get Fired Press Conference.”
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) March 5, 2018
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The #ChicagoOscar for Best Supporting Actor goes to Joe Berrios, for his long-running role in “The Machine.”
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) March 5, 2018
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The #ChicagoOscar for Best Supporting Actress goes to Toni Preckwinkle, for her long-running role in “I Support Joe Berrios.”
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) March 5, 2018
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The #ChicagoOscar for Best Actor in a Comedy goes to Bob Fioretti, for “Take The Money And Run Again (And Again).”
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) March 5, 2018
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The #ChicagoOscar for Concern Trolling goes to John Kass for his ongoing miniseries, “What About Chicago?”
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) March 5, 2018
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The #ChicagoOscar for Best Actor in a Tragicomedy goes to Garry McCarthy, for “Don’t Blame Me For Laquan McDonald, Blame Rahm, Even Though Jason Van Dyke Did Nothing Wrong.”
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) March 5, 2018
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The #ChicagoOscar for Best Actress in a Dramatic Role goes to Bridget Gainer, for “I’m Not Sorry At All That I Don’t Show Up For Cook County Board Meetings Because I Also Work For Aon But I’ll Blame My Kids Even Though Meetings Are Daytime Affairs When They Are In School.”
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) March 5, 2018
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The #ChicagoOscar for Best Actor in a Reinvention Drama goes to Mark Konkol, for “I Used To Love Rahm Emanuel But Now I’m An Alt-Weekly Guy Who Is Nonetheless Drooling To Use The N-Word.”
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) March 5, 2018
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The #ChicagoOscar for Direction of a Documentary About Gentrification, Disinvestment and Neighborhood Composition goes to Rahm Emanuel for “Get Out.”
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) March 5, 2018
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New on the Beachwood today . . .
The Illinois Libertarian Convention Over The Weekend Was Apparently Bonkers
By the former pro wrestler who would’ve won the gubernatorial nomination if he only thought to bring his wife to the proceedings to break a tie . . .
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NRA TV
Dear Lying Media: Your time is running out!
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SportsMonday: Ramblers ‘R’ Us
Loyola is in.
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This Day In . . .
A sampling. More at our Facebook page.
2015: The Chicago media’s shameful reaction to the Homan Square story. Hey, if you don’t want to believe the airtight reporting, debunk it with airtight reporting of your own. Funny, no one did that.
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And then local journalists refused to comment to the Columbia Journalism Review. Sheer gutlessness all the way around.
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2014: Obama Sends Man Working In Legal Marijuana Clinic To Prison.
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2014: The Ongoing, Decades-Long Mystery Of How Sneed Remains Employed.
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ChicagoGram
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ChicagoTube
The Media’s Story, But Not The Community’s Truth.
“Chicago’s black and brown neighborhoods are depicted and looked at as dangerous. Lacking work programs, positive resources for the youth and community at large, many outsiders looking in only get a small glimpse of what is really happening. Real Chi Youth reporter Chelsea Berry interviewed Joe Black, a community filmmaker and Lee Edwards, a local reporter for the Austin Weekly to gain insight on their understanding of the media’s role in creating these narratives. They discussed how to tackle reporting on the problems facing communities by engaging community members in order to tell more accurate stories.”
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BeachBook
The Lottery Hackers.
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TweetWood
A sampling.
.@RepDannyDavis says “the world is so much bigger than Farrakhan and the Jewish question and his position on that and so forth. For those heavy into it, that’s their thing, but it ain’t my thing.”https://t.co/KTQbjVCGg7
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) March 5, 2018
See also:
“As a shining symbol of democracy, the United States capital is not ordinarily a place where coronations occur. So news that the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, the eccentric and exceedingly wealthy Korean-born businessman, donned a crown in a Senate office building and declared himself the Messiah while members of Congress watched is causing a bit of a stir,” the New York Times reported in 2004.
“One congressman, Representative Danny K. Davis, Democrat of Illinois, wore white gloves and carried a pillow holding one of two ornate gold crowns that were placed on the heads of Mr. Moon and his wife, Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon, at the ceremony, which took place March 23 and capped a reception billed as a peace awards banquet.”
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Don’t forget: Obama redrew his state senate district to dump poor people and gain rich donors: https://t.co/hTQhcQsVD3 https://t.co/MUnvBZKO1T
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) March 5, 2018
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This Day in 2014.
President Obama lost the nation’s largest Latino advocacy organization: NCLR leader calls him “deporter-in-chief.” http://t.co/6226Jaw3eQ
— dri (@DriXander) March 4, 2014
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LOL, 2016.
Trump is testing the limits of the durability of his coalition, because this is not a steady performance tonight
— Chuck Todd (@chucktodd) March 4, 2016
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“Just realizing how often I was lied to while reporting this piece.” https://t.co/QIorrcm9We
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) March 4, 2018
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The Beachwood Tronc Line: One turntable and a microphone.
Posted on March 5, 2018