The right-wing anti-union Illinois Policy Institute plays the Chicago press like a cheap piano.
IPI CEO John Tillman. President of Golf Illinois and go-to guy for Chicago reporters.
The Illinois Policy Institute is a right-wing anti-union front group for the Illinois Republican Party Tea Party branch, parading as a think tank.
During the Chicago teachers strike you couldn’t turn on your television without seeing the guy who owns IPI, CEO John Tillman on a panel or being interviewed. Even more than the Mayor or CPS board President David Vitale (or the invisible CEO JC Brizard), Tillman became the voice of the other side.
How?
The IPI played the Chicago reporters like a cheap piano.
A social media marketing blog, The Frontier Lab, reports.
Over the past month, IPI had been aggressively using social media to capitalize