Robservations: Van Dyke trial coverage wins praise - and viewers
Posted October 08, 2018 1:00 am
Chicago television stations went wall-to-wall all afternoon Friday with coverage of the verdict in the trial of Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke and its aftermath, reports Robert Feder.
By 2 p.m. viewers in more than 481,192 households tuned in to see Van Dyke convicted of second-degree murder in the shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald in 2014.
Read more from Feder here.
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