Trial Puts Morocco’s New Charter Under Spotlight
CASABLANCA — In a packed courtroom, Mouad Belrhouat, 24, an anti-monarchist rapper who performs as El-Haqed, or The Spiteful, was convicted last Thursday of assault and sentenced to prison and a fine.
Former WORD Writer’s New York Times Piece
January 19th, 2012The Pat Buchanan Bigot Boogaloo Now a Shuffle
January 10th, 2012Huffington Post: Pat Buchanan Denies MSNBC Suspension: ‘I Don’t Know Anything About That’ (AUDIO)
Pat Buchanan spoke out for the first time about his absence from MSNBC on a Monday radio show.
Speaking to conservative host Hugh Hewitt, Buchanan denied reports that he has been officially suspended from the network following the release of a controversial book, “Suicide of a Superpower,” which claims that America’s European values are being drowned by waves of immigration. Buchanan has not been seen on MSNBC since Oct. 22.
NYCLU Challenges Nassau County PD’s Refusal to Release Records on Dealings with TV Personality Bill O’Reilly
January 9th, 2012
Bill O’Reilly’s penis envy?
The New York Civil Liberties Union has filed court papers challenging the Nassau County Police Department’s refusal to disclose public records concerning allegations that the department launched an internal affairs investigation at the behest of Fox News pundit Bill O’Reilly of a detective whom the TV personality believed was romantically involved with his wife.
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NYPD Commissioner Wins “2011 Bull Connor Award”
January 9th, 2012Bull Connor Theophilus Eugene “Bull” Connor (July 11, 1897 – March 10, 1973) was the Commissioner of Public Safety for the city of Birmingham, Alabama, during the American Civil Rights Movement. Connor directed the use of fire hoses, and police attack dogs against peaceful demonstrators, including children during the Civil Rights era. Read more here.
Check out the WORD’s Michael Hensley’s story on NYPD’s Stop and Frisk taking place in primarily Big Apple Communities of Color.
The Handwriting on the Wall, the Elephants in the Room
November 13th, 2011D:F/M Colleagues were shocked at the Wednesday, November 9, faculty meeting when Dara Meyers-Kingsley, Project Director, Arts Across the Curriculum Initiative, said several departments in the College were submitting proposals to add media to their curriculum. [The Chair, speaking in a manner that set off alerts in this Colleague, expressed to Meyers-Kingsley hissurprise that he had not been made aware of this action, as chairs are suppose to be aware of threats to department turfs. No one even blinked.]
D:F/M sobriety was also blown away when it became known that D:F/M was not represented on the AAC Committee that had been formed.
A Letter to the Prof
November 12th, 2011Below is an excellent description by a student (ambushed by circumstances beyond his control) about an advance news writing class which started with an enrollment of 11 and is being taught this semester.
Vanessa Casavant: Whoa! What Happened to This Former WORD Writer?
November 10th, 2011There are way too many inaccuracies and too much misrepresentation and deceit in this blog-tumblr piece [below] by Hunter alumna Vanessa Casavant for this former mentor-instructor to engage in rebuttals, rejoinders, replies and the lot at this point in time in the early fall semester. For the moment, this writer is collecting her online posts as well as contacting news services who wrote about her quotable and paraphrased whining in their news articles to alert them to the spurious and the specious and that they were snookered.
So, what is this about? Read on.
Union Square, 14th Street Station, NYC
November 10th, 2011
On my way home from Hunter College
Occupy D:F/M — Part 2
November 8th, 2011[Soon to be a Major Motion Picture — 
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Also, posted on Hunter-L
Attention D:F/M Colleagues Tami Gold***Ricardo Miranda***Bernard Stein***Kelly Anderson***Isabel Pinedo***Tim Portlock
Stinkiest Journalism of the Year
December 27th, 2011Occupy the PU-litzers!
Read full story here.
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