Episode 217: Launching A Smear Campaign Against A Respected Black Librarian, For Social Justice

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Episode 217: Launching A Smear Campaign Against A Respected Black Librarian, For Social Justice

What really happened at the Oak Park Public Library

Jun 01, 2024

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This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss how activists in Oak Park, Illinois, got got. Plus, Michael Moynihan spills the tea on Vice.

The Free Press

How ‘Vice’ Went from a $6 Billion Media Empire to Bankruptcy

The beginning of the end came in 2017. After a New York Times report exposed the supposedly sexually charged “boys’ club” atmosphere at Vice—a magazine started by three boys in 1994—a clutch of employees publicly condemned their employer for its past and demanded that the company that paid their salaries start acting like an entirely different company…

8 months ago · 599 likes · 311 comments · Michael Moynihan

Well Sourced from Kelly Jensen

What Is Going On at Oak Park Public Library?

Oak Park Public Library (OPPL) is one of the most innovative and respected public libraries in the Chicago area, if not the midwest or country more broadly. The library earned a 5-star status from Library Journal in December 2022, among dozens of other awards…

a year ago · 10 likes · 7 comments · kelly jensen

Public lashes out at Oak Park library over management of Palestinian culture event - Wednesday Journal

Oak Park’s library to implement anonymous staff survey amid leadership controversy - Wednesday Journal

Oak Park library’s board will decide whether the executive director can keep her job - Wednesday Journal

Discussion about this podcast

Blocked and Reported

Journalists Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal scour the internet for its craziest, silliest, most sociopathic content, part of an obsessive and ill-conceived attempt to extract kernels of meaning and humanity from a landscape of endless raging dumpster fires.

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