Disembodied violence strikes again

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Chi Trib has its headline: “Chicago’s violence” etc.

Impact of Chicago’s violence on girls in toughest neighborhoods often overlooked

Say what? Not violent people? Black men? Violent black boys? Fatherless black boys? 

Come on, major media — in this case the onetime world’s greatest newspaper (WGN) — get concrete. What are you trying to hide?

Why be so disarmingly, alarmingly vague?

Published by Jim Bowman

Jim Bowman covered religion 1968-78 for the Chicago Daily News, since then has written books, articles, etc., mostly on corporate history but also on religion (Company Man: My Jesuit Life, 1950-1968), and more recently on politics (Illinois Blues: How the Ruling Party Talks to Voters -- Lulu.com, Kindle). Longtime Oak Park, Illinois, resident, he lives now on Chicago's North Side, where four of his and Winnie's six children live close by.

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