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WFLD Television - Channel 32

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Andrew Perez at Rolling Stone:

Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s husband is currently representing Fox Corporation, the parent company of Fox News, in a defamation lawsuit, according to court records reviewed by Rolling Stone. The lawsuit relates to reports by one of Fox’s local stations.

Jesse Barrett is a trial lawyer and managing partner at SouthBank Legal. He heads the firm’s Washington, D.C., office, which opened after Justice Barrett joined the high court. While the SouthBank Legal website says that Jesse Barrett “focuses on white-collar criminal defense, internal investigations, and complex commercial litigation,” it notes, in a recent addition, that he has “represented a prominent media company in a lawsuit alleging defamation.”  That prominent media company is Fox Corporation, which owns the conservative cable news channel Fox News. Fox News regularly covers matters at the Supreme Court and will surely continue to do so as the high court nears the end of its term. It is set to issue rulings soon on a slate of controversial topics, such as abortion, guns, public corruption, and whether Donald Trump is entitled to immunity for life for acts he committed as president. 

Jesse Barrett’s work for Fox Corporation highlights one of ethics experts’ biggest complaints about the Supreme Court: Justices are not required to disclose their spouses’ clients, so the public has no way to track who is paying money directly to their families. In her 2021 financial disclosure, Justice Barrett even redacted the name of her husband’s firm, despite it being common knowledge that he works there. [...]

It is no secret that Jesse Barrett represents corporate interests: His firm bio says his “clients have included multiple Fortune 500 companies and corporate executives.” The Southbank Legal website says that the firm has represented 26 Fortune 500 companies.  The public has no way to identify Barrett’s clients, for the most part. However, federal court records show that Barrett is serving as Fox Corporation’s lead counsel in an ongoing defamation case. He had the case moved from Cook County, Illinois, to federal court late last month.

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The defamation case was filed by Lavell Redmond, an Illinois man who was convicted of aggravated sexual assault as a minor and served 24 years in prison. Redmond was hired as a code enforcement officer by the mayor of Dolton in 2021, the original complaint says. He is suing Fox over a series of reports that scandalized his hiring — the first of which claimed he had been hired for “a job in which he goes into Dolton homes and businesses to inspect them.” The complaint says that “as a code enforcement officer, Redmond was never responsible for entering village resident’s homes to do his job, nor did he ever enter village resident’s homes. Redmond only had the ability to observe home exteriors to write code violations.” Redmond alleges that “FOX 32’s reporting directly led to Redmond being arrested and wrongfully charged with violating the reporting requirements of the sex offender registry,” as well as his subsequent termination.

Jesse Barrett, the husband of right-wing SCOTUS Justice Amy Coney Barrett, is representing Fox Corporation (the parent company of right-wing propaganda outlet Fox “News”) in a defamation lawsuit regarding its Chicago O&O station WFLD (Fox 32), per a report from Rolling Stone.

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Berwyn.

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90's Commercials Vol. 512

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Hands up who's heard of TOM LICHTENHELD?

In the late 80s, I discovered a discount bookshop on Shaftesbury Avenue, amongst the junk,  ‘Knitting For The Whole Family’ and ‘Fun With Chives’ were piles American advertising books I’d never heard of; One Show Annuals. They were dirt cheap – £4.99. For the cost of one D&AD Annual I could buy six One Shows. So I bought six One Shows. The work was a revelation. Bolder, funnier and less genteel…

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70's/80′s/90′s Local Television Thanksgiving Station IDs/Bumpers Part 4 1. WFLD-TV, Chicago, Illinois, 1981 2. WAAY-TV, Huntsville, Alabama, 1994 3. WGAL-TV, Lancaster/Lebanon/Harrisburg/York, Pennsylvania, 1997 4. WPGH-TV, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 90's 5. WMTW-TV, Poland Spring, Maine, 70's 6. WCMH-TV, Columbus, Ohio, 1997 7. WCCO-TV, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota, 1996 8. WNBC-TV, New York, New York, 1993 Part 1 (x) Part 2 (x) Part 3 (x)

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The Honeymooners on WFLD - Channel 32

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DRACULA VS. FRANKENSTEIN (1971) on WFLD TV Ch. 32, Chicago

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Happy 45th anniversary to Svengoolie, who premiered today on my childhood tv station, WFLD 32 Chicago!

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70′s WFLD-TV Chicago, Illinois “Places To Go” bumper

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Horror Hosts

This was from a 1985 "Bloopers and Practical Jokes".  The Horror Hosts identified are as follows:   "Sammy Terry"  WTTV - Indianapolis, IN "Count Scary"  WDIV - Detroit, MI "Macabra"  WOWT - Omaha, NE "Zacherle"  WOR- Seacaucus, NJ "Darcinia" KGSW - Albuquerque, NM "Elvira" KHJ-Los Angeles, CA "Count Gregore" KAUT-Oklahoma City, OK "Spookman Dan" KVIQ-Eureka, CA "Chilly Billy" WPXI-Pittsburgh, PA "Melvin Clumpton"and "Mom" ? Elroy "Buzz" Towers KNXV-Phoenix, AZ "Crematia" KSHB-Kansas City, MO "Big Chuck & Little John" WJKW-Cleveland, OH "Lucretia" KOKH-Oklahoma City, OK "Mr. Svengoolie's Neighborhood" WFLD-Chicago, IL