Should only artists report on art?
An aesthetic riff on a contentious mayoral press strategy in Chicago.
If you follow the news, you doubtless read of Lori Lightfoot’s controversial decision on the two-year anniversary of her inauguration as Chicago’s mayor to sit for interviews only with reporters of color.
Justifying the policy—which Kim Bellware, of Washington Post, called a “Rorschach test for Chicago reporters and residents”—Lightfoot cited the “overwh…