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Steve Macek

Steve Macek teaches media studies and urban studies at North Central College (Naperville, IL). He is the author of Urban Nightmares: The Media, the Right and the Moral Panic over the City (University of Minnesota Press, 2006) and has published essays about media history and the representation of cities in film and television in edited scholarly volumes, journals and magazines. He is currently writing a book about the history of film censorship in Chicago.

no. 2, Roundtables, vol. 1April 9, 2016

Whitewashing the Violence of the Local State

By Steve Macek
[Ed. note: this post is part of a roundtable discussion, Policing and the Media: The View from Chicago. For more background on the discussion and to view other posts in the series, see here.]

Thank you Brendan, …

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no. 2, Roundtables, vol. 1March 12, 2016

Framing a Shooting (and a Movement)

By Steve Macek

Mainstream Media’s Mendacity vs. Independent Journalism’s Dogged Pursuit of the Truth

Let me begin by first rehearsing the basic facts surrounding Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke’s shooting of Laquan McDonald before moving on to discuss how the Chicago media …

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