Archive for the ‘Commentary’ Category
Saturday, April 13th, 2013
This was published several months ago in Indiewire by Josh Raiske but I just came across it and thought it needs to see more light of day.
It’s in my nature to overanalyze and to equivocate, and to make light of the things that are most important to me, but sometimes even those who can close off their emotions with seemingly little effort come up against a force that moves us in strange and powerful ways.
I saw The Central Park Five at the closing night of DOC NYC last night, and at the end, when the five men who’d been wrongfully convicted came up onto the stage, together in one place for the first time since that night in Central Park on April 19, 1989, I was choking back tears, and maybe all my perspective (too much fucking perspective) has gone out the window, but I think this is one of the most important films I’ve ever seen.
Full blog article here.
Tags: ken burns, NYPD Stop and Frisk, police brutality, sarah burns
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Monday, December 31st, 2012
The best way to bring in 2013 for NYC: The clock strikes midnight and everyone engages in one minute of silence for the victims and survivors of Sandy, Newton, the worst depression/recession in memory and NYPD Stop & Frisk.
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Tags: 2013, Celebrating New Years, moment of silence, Newton Massacre, NYPD, NYPD STOP & FRISK, worst recession in memory
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Friday, December 21st, 2012
The House Republicans’ Spending Reduction Act of 2012 Will Hurt Middle Class Families
The House Republicans introduced a bill last night, The Spending Reduction Act of 2012, that would negatively impact the American people in several ways.
I’ve been spending so much time “studying” facebook that I’ve neglected this blog. That’s all about to change even though the first few steps can be measured in picas.
I might go to the inauguration in January.
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Tags: Democrats, fiscal cliff, middle class, Obama, Republicans, White House
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Wednesday, December 19th, 2012
According to the minutes for the November D:F/M faculty meeting, D:F/M Chair Jay Roman and Colleagues Bob Stanley and Karen Hunter (right now, I regard Colleague Hunter as a sort of overpaid journalistic diletante with a scurrilous reputation for making despicable comments about atheists) and others whose names were not in the minutes, were distressed that Colleague Parisi was being “singled” out for his comments supporting news censorship of the WORD.
![Peter Parisi [From his facebook page]](http://blog.hunterword.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/peewee-parisi-21-187x200.jpg)
Peter Parisi [From his facebook page]
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Tags: First Amendment, Freedom Of The Press, news censorship
Posted in Blogroll, Commentary, Dogfighting in the Department of Chimera, Ethics, It Was One of Those Semesters, It's Been One of Those Semesters, Journalism, Journalism Education, State of Journalism, Student Journalism, The Controversy Continues | Comments Off
Wednesday, March 14th, 2012
At the D:F/M faculty meeting today, irate Colleagues expressed plans to censor the WORD? They said they were upset that the department’s dirty linen was being exposed across the spectrum of the Internet.
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Tags: academic freedom, censorship, Civil Liberties, D:F/M, U.S. First Amendment
Posted in Blogroll, Civil Liberties/Journalism, Commentary, Ethics, It's Been One of Those Semesters, Journalism, Journalism Education, State of Journalism, The Black Press, The Controversy Continues | Comments Off
Tuesday, December 27th, 2011
Occupy the PU-litzers!

This year has given us simply too many worthy contenders for FAIR’s annual P.U.-litzers–recognizing the stinkiest journalism of the year. A big part of the problem was that so many outlets were striving to distinguish themselves with especially awful coverage of the Occupy Wall Street movement. So to note those lowlights, we bring you a special installment of P.U.-litzers: The OWS edition.
Read full story here.
Tags: CNN, corporate journalism, mainstream journalism, New York Times, OCCUPY, WNYC
Posted in Commentary, Criticism, Ethics, FAIR, I Didn't See This on the Evening News (A Work in Progress), Journalism, Journalism Education, Media, News/Commentary/Opinion, State of Journalism | Comments Off
Monday, January 24th, 2011
I was surprised when students in my two writing classes, feature and introductory news, declined to participate in a conference call with the President of the United States, September 27, 2010, as student journalists at 300 other student publications did.
Not one expressed an interest.
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Tags: Student Journalism, student news media
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An Open Letter to America about the Central Park Five
Saturday, April 13th, 2013This was published several months ago in Indiewire by Josh Raiske but I just came across it and thought it needs to see more light of day.
Tags: ken burns, NYPD Stop and Frisk, police brutality, sarah burns
Posted in Blogroll, Civil Liberties/Journalism, Commentary, Journalism Education, News/Commentary/Opinion | Comments Off