Report: Chi's NBC5 Ignores Union Ties To Socialist Orgs

At a Chicago Teachers Union protest in November, NBC5 Chicago’s Charlie Wojciechowski refused to cover Chicago Teachers Union members connection to the International Socialist Organization and told me Breitbart News was “full of s**t,” after asking him if he would do so. Tuesday night, NBC5 reporter Christian Farr followed suit by also refusing to cover those same ties displayed at a CTU protest he was covering.

Breitbart.com is reporting Chicago Teachers Union organizers teamed up once again with Action Now for a protest directed at Mayor Rahm Emanuel and his so-called “fat cat” friends ahead of Wednesday’s vote to close underutilized Chicago schools. The protest was staged outside of the Chicago Public School headquarters.

Breitbart reports as is typical of many CTU protests, however, few actual teachers and parents were present at the protest themselves, while many left-wing front groups were.

Action Now, formerly ACORN, had the largest presence, along with Stand Up Chicago, Teachers for Social Justice, and members of the International Socialist Organization.

WLS 890 AM radio’s Bruce Wolf and Dan Proft have been the only “main-stream media” in Chicago to question the ties between the Chicago Teachers Union and the International Socialist Organization; when they interviewed CTU Vice President Jesse Sharkey, they asked him about his participation in the Midwest Marxism Conference held in October at the Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism.

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