A sign of this transformation is Northwestern University giving a tenure track job to Bernardine Dohrn, founding member of the terrorist group Weather Underground. A few people protested when a former terrorist bomber was hired at a prestigious university to “educate” American youth, but not very many.
Crepeau is a graduate of Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism, a department within Northwestern University that became a hotbed of radicalism. She was hardly the only one. A large swath of zombie journalists cranking out the same ideological rants in the name of journalism throughout Chicago also graduated from Medill. They roam the city like a band of hyenas, carefully barking the same story and turning on any of their own kind who should stray from the party line.
One of the most appalling chapters in Crepeau’s decade-long stint at the Tribune powerfully revealed how much this movement influenced her reporting. It was the case of a man once convicted for his role in the 1982 murder of two police officers on the South Side of Chicago.
Jackie Wilson’s saga of receiving a life sentence into garnering his freedom, then becoming a millionaire, could not have taken shape without the media, including Crepeau, kowtowing to the forces of the radical left that worked so hard to free Wilson from prison, claiming he was tortured into confessing.
The most chilling example of the refusal by the media to inform the public about what was truly taking place in the release of Wilson was their refusal to address the Soviet-style commission called TIRC that paved the way for Wilson to get out of prison. Created by the state legislature, TIRC was granted, incredibly, the authority to overturn convictions by a collection of unelected members appointed by the governor. One of the most blatant attacks on constitutional government, TIRC has freed scores of convicted murderers on often trumped-up claims of innocence and abuse, claims that were rejected throughout the entire judicial process, only to have the TIRC tribunal suddenly endorse them. Many of the TIRC commissioners stood to benefit from the release of maniacs like Wilson.