PODCAST: Downers Grove HS Obscene Books Biased Journalism
Nov 26, 2021•11 min
Episode description
Chicago Sun-Times education reporter Nader Issa offers a classic example of biased opinion writing masquerading as objective reporting in his “news” narratives about a recent controversy in the Chicago suburb of Downers Grove over an obscene “graphic memoir.” The memoir titled Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe may sound familiar to IFI readers. I wrote this about her memoir in early August 2021:
Maia Kobabe, author of Gender Queer: A Memoir, which is carried in high school libraries, tells the peculiar tale of her journey to her “identity” as a genderqueer, asexual woman with a lesbian aunt and a
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