
Paul Lisnek
Emmy-winning attorney and political analyst for WGN-TV since 2008; host of WGN's "Behind the Curtain" and the theater podcast "Curtain Call Chicago."
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Sep 29, 2026
Behind the Curtain with Paul Lisnek: Media, Politics, and the Evolution of American Journalism
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6:11Richard GordonHOST
But how does it fit together? When you look at yourself, how does, for example, the politics and the theater and the law and the juries, how does this whole compilation come together into one guy? How do you see it? It all started

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with an advisor, career advisor at University of Illinois many years ago who told me that she didn't respect me.

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Here's the very short story, which is I was a sophomore liberal arts general student, went in to see an advisor and she said, what's your major going to be? And I said, accounting.
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42:49Richard GordonHOST
How does the, based on your legal background, how does the United States Department of Justice, the antitrust division and whatnot, how do they allow stuff like this to happen?