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This week on CounterSpin: Chicago is hundreds of millions of dollars in debt, say the headlines, and the only question is which social services should communities shortchange? But is Chicago broke because experts say it is, or is there another way to look at it? We’ll hear about the “mirage” of deficits from Chicago civic educator and organizer Tom Tresser.

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Also on the show: Author, journalist and media critic Ben Bagdikian, who died March 11 at age 96, was a founding influence on FAIR. Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter at the Washington Post and a dean at UC Berkeley’s School of Journalism, he was an early adviser, and wrote the first cover story for FAIR’s magazine, Extra!, based on his classic book The Media Monopoly. CounterSpin spoke with Ben Bagdikian in August 1995. We bring you that interview on this week’s show.

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And, as usual, we take a look back at the week’s press, including bigotry and objectivity, redbaiting Bernie Sanders, and Merrick Garland.

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