RFI ED talks ‘deceptive’ Chicago City Wire campaign mailers
RFI Executive Director Alisa Kaplan spoke with Block Club Chicago about the Chicago City Wire mailers popping up in mailboxes across Chicago.
“The mailers appeared during campaign season and will likely disappear after the election; the goal is clearly to get certain people elected or ousted,” she said. “And they’re designed to look like traditional newspapers for a reason. People associate newspapers with a measure of independence and journalistic standards, and the publishers of these mailers are clearly trying to take advantage of that to make their campaign message seem more credible. That’s deceptive, and it’s disturbing.”
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