Welcome to the Reader‘s morning briefing for Wednesday, July 13, 2016.
Imagining the global media spotlight during a 2016 Summer Olympics in Chicago
Chicago’s failed 2016 Olympic bid may seem like a distant memory, and the winning city, Rio de Janeiro, has been plagued by crises ranging from the Zika virus to political instability to rampant crime. Vice Sports has imagined a very cynical alternate reality in which Chicago was selected to host the upcoming games, and the global media starts picking apart all of Chicago’s problems from its violence epidemic to police brutality issues to corrupt politicians to a deep fiscal crisis and the discovery of lead in the drinking water at public schools. At least there’s no Zika. [Vice]
