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Posts from the ‘Dissecting the Local News’ Category

5April 27, 2025Local news coverage leading up to Schurr’s trial has been influenced by his lawyers, experts, a failure to provide community voices and a pro-GRPD bias

1April 7, 2025Local media coverage for the 3rd anniversary of the GRPD’s killing of Patrick Lyoya perpetuates a biased narrative and seemingly disinterested coverage

2March 31, 2025Pure Copaganda: New Trailer for GRPD TV series and local news coverage about All Access PD Grand Rapids Part II

0March 26, 2025GR City Commissioners excited to spend $20 million for a golf entertainment center in the midst of a housing crisis

1March 23, 2025Pure Copaganda: New Trailer for GRPD TV series and local news coverage about All Access PD Grand Rapids

2March 18, 2025GRPD creates counter narrative about incident from last weekend, while Chief Winstrom claims the cops have regained community trust

0March 2, 2025Another misleading MLive article about ICE, cops and Sanctuary cities in Michigan

1February 25, 2025MLive reports on land sale for new soccer stadium, but omits the concerns of residents and ignores the DeVos connection in all of it

0February 16, 2025MLive doesn’t cite the groups behind the local Sanctuary campaigns and creates a paywall for their poll on whether Grand Rapids should be a Sanctuary City

0February 14, 2025Grand Rapids and Kent County officials go out of their way to say they are cooperating with ICE, while MLive omits the organizations pushing for Sanctuary policies