Two weeks ago, the morning co-host of a Chicago News/Talk radio station owned by Salem Media Group teamed with her employer in filing a federal lawsuit against the governor of Illinois for effectively barring her from his press briefings.
In the eyes of J.B. Pritzker and his team in Springfield, she shed her objectivity as a journalist by participating in a protest of COVID-19 shelter-in-place restrictions that attracted neo-Nazi sympathizers. In the view of the host, Amy Jacobson, it was retaliation for her reports on the governor’s questionable travel during the height of those restrictions.
Now, the battle is over.
