Sun-Times does bad journalism on behalf of the Mayor

The media is much more likely to report on crimes that get reported to the police. OK, that makes sense.

But "during remote learning" is an inappropriate thing thing to emphasize in a headline unless the remote learning somehow led to the crime.

Of course, the larger context is that Mayor Lightfoot is feuding with Chicago Teachers Union about classroom instruction vs. remote learning. And Chicago Sun-Times, like it did in the 2015 election, is largely the mouthpiece for the Mayor of Chicago. In the month before the Chuy vs. Rahm runoff, the front page of the CST might as well been designed by the Emanuel campaign (on many days). Yeah, I remember.

Common sense says that sexual assault of Chicago Public Schools students by non-family members is way lower with remote learning than with students going to school where they can be sexually assaulted in transit, at school or after school.

Emphasizing a single sexual assault during remote learning without providing context that remote learning is safer is not only propaganda, it's the kind of propaganda that's contrary to the facts. That is, it creates a misleading perception.

And creating a misleading perception isn't a random error, but one introduced by Chicago Sun-Times on behalf of the Mayor of Chicago and her allies.