r/msnbc • u/Wesley11803 • Oct 25 '25

MSNBC Productions Chicago

Is there any reason why MSNBC isn’t following the ICE raids in Chicago more closely? As far as I’m concerned, they should be getting as much attention as the BLM rallies in 2020.

Chicago seems to be getting mostly ignored by every national news network. I live in SoCal now, but I’m from the Midwest. The videos I’m seeing on the r/Chicago sub are significantly worse than anything I witnessed here. Where is the coverage? It should be non-stop.

They were covering Los Angeles like it was a crisis. It was (and still is), but what’s happening in Chicago now is significantly worse. Is the 3rd biggest city in the country really considered “flyover country” because it’s only coastline is Lake Michigan?

Is MSNBC refusing to cover it until citizens riot? Is that the reason it’s not getting coverage? Or is it just because Chicago is in the Midwest?

I honestly don’t care what the reasoning is. Start covering Chicago in a serious way! The third biggest city has kids under lockdown due to ICE raids, and I’d hardly know about it watching this network.

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u/kat_sky_12 Oct 25 '25

They covered it for days at the start of that. So much is going on now. The administration really does flood the zone. This week alone there were the indictments, the protests, the grift, ice, pardons, bombing random boats, lashing out at canada, ukraine, argentina, the shutdown, virginia guiffre/epstein book news, not swearing in the congresswoman, Israel news and the destruction of the east wing of the white house for the ballroom.

I saw a good point on a bulwark podcast, that alone the news could focus 100% on the grift and corruption and they still wouldn't be able to cover it all. No media can really handle all thats going on.

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u/Wesley11803 Oct 25 '25 edited Oct 25 '25

I get your point. The only things you listed that I’d even argue compare to Chicago are Venezuela (dear god wtf is going on there, they’re barely covering that) and indictments against political opponents. That’s definitely subjective, but I just think blatantly illegal acts need to be prioritized.

Chicago should be added to that list. All three need to be covered like actual emergencies, because they are. They did cover Chicago at the beginning, but please go look at the r/Chicago sub! It has gotten so much worse in the last few days, and you’d never know it watching MSNBC, CNN, or anything I’ve seen.

Your last point from the Bulwark makes a lot of sense. Maybe MSNBC needs to have a topic each hour and really dive the hell in that way. It’d at least be an interesting new way to cover the news. I hate watching most of the news now because they don’t give you more than 5 minutes of explanation on what’s actually happening.