Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot defended her racially discriminatory media policy of granting interviews only to reporters from a minority background, claiming it has helped America’s newsrooms reform themselves and “do better.”
Lightfoot wrote that “on the occasion of the two-year anniversary of my inauguration as [m]ayor of this great [c]ity, I will be exclusively providing one-on-one interviews with journalists of color” in order to combat “the overwhelming whiteness and maleness of Chicago media outlets.” The legal watchdog group Judicial Watch sued Lightfoot on the grounds that her policy violates the Fourteenth Amendment.
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