Tuesday, May 29, 2012

'Mayor Bloomberg, long fabled white knight' in minds of long-suffering staffers of NY Times

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5/28/12, "A New York Times Who Dunit," NY Magazine, Joe Hagan

"As with the Journal, the low stock price of the Times makes the company vulnerable to protests by stockholders, who could, if such an offer were forthcoming, at the very least bring expensive legal action against the paper if it resisted and further tempt an already anxious family to sell the paper.

That has led to speculation, and not for the first time, that Mayor Bloomberg, a long-fabled white knight for beleaguered Times staffers, could swoop in and save the paper from itself, a kind of best worst-case scenario for the Ochs-Sulzberger family. Here, after all, would be the decisive leader the paper yearned for, a ­powerful and wealthy businessman who has shown ample commitment to the city that gives its name to the greatest newspaper in the world. In theory, this benevolent dictator could afford to lose money for the greater good of journalism in America.

Bloomberg LLC wouldn’t comment on whether the mayor would make a bid for the New York Times. As it stands, there are no talks happening."...(end of p. 6)

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Ed. note: A newspaper that makes up lies to incite racial hatred and violence is 'a greater good?'

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NY Times edit of dispatcher transcript invites the world to believe Zimmerman volunteered that Trayvon Martin "looked Black," or was "in a gray hoodie, looked Black." Not true.

4/3/12, "NYT Zimmerman Edit Even Worse in Print Edition," Breitbart, Big Journalism, Joel B. Pollak

"After Breitbart.com pointed out yesterday that the New York Times had joined NBC and MSNBC in selectively editing George Zimmerman's 911 call to make him look like a racist, a reader emailed us to note that the misleading edit was even worse in some print editions of the newspaper.

Here is the 911 call transcript."...

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4/2/12, "New York Times Repeats NBC Smear With Selective Edit of Zimmerman 911 Call," Breitbart, Big Journalism, Joel B. Pollak

"Today's front-page article in the New York Times on the Trayvon Martin case repeated NBC's attempt to cast George Zimmerman as a racist by selectively editing his 911 call."

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3/31/12, Updated 4/3, NBC admits editing error on Zimmerman tape

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"This is a scurrilous article! Where's the evidence? It's just creepy, New York aversion to the fly-over people.
While Mr. Obama will always be known to the history books as the country’s first black president, his mixed-race heritage has only rarely surfaced in visible and explicit ways amid the tumult of a deep recession, two wars and shifting political currents.
Exactly. It's remarkable, the absence of racism. But the NYT is just so eager to rake some up anyway.
  • The Obama campaign aggressively monitors any racial remarks made against the president, but officials rarely openly discuss Mr. Obama’s race....
Don't you think this material, searched for so diligently, would be passed on to the NYT if something could be made of it?"...

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More, 5/6/12, "NY Times Goes Hunting for Racist 'Ultraconservatives' in Ohio Who Won't Support Obama," NewsBusters, Tim Graham

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How the NY Times viciously misreported the 1991 Crown Heights riots:

8/9/11, "Telling It Like It Wasn’t," Jewish Week, Ari Goldman

"Yet, when I picked up the paper, the article I read was not the story I had reported. I saw headlines that described the riots in terms solely of race. “Two Deaths Ignite Racial Clash in Tense Brooklyn Neighborhood,” the Times headline said. And, worse, I read an opening paragraph, what journalists call a “lead,” that was simply untrue:

“Hasidim and blacks clashed in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn through the day and into the night yesterday.”

In all my reporting during the riots I never saw — or heard of — any violence by Jews against blacks. But the Times was dedicated to this version of events: blacks and Jews clashing amid racial tensions. To show Jewish culpability in the riots, the paper even ran a picture — laughable even at the time — of a chasidic man brandishing an open umbrella before a police officer in riot gear. The caption read: “A police officer scuffling with a Hasidic man yesterday on President Street.”

I was outraged but I held my tongue. I was a loyal Times employee and deferred to my editors. I figured that other reporters on the streets were witnessing parts of the story I was not seeing."...

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12/10/04, "Jayson Blair: A Case Study of What Went Wrong at The New York Times," PBS.org, NewsHourOnline

"On May 1, 2003, 27-year-old New York Times reporter Jayson Blair resigned amidst charges that he plagiarized a story about the family of an American soldier in Iraq.

A scar on the reputation of one of the country's most influential newspapers, the Blair scandal launched a massive internal review of The Times' hiring, management and reporting practices and led to a staff shake-up ending with the resignation of two of the paper's top editors."...

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Ed. note: This country would have a real chance if the NY Times did not exist.


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