Archive for March, 2009
First Protest at Hunter This Semester
Friday, March 6th, 2009Â
Unknown student with an unfurled sign in front the Hunter North Building March 8, 2009
So, yesterday, Thursday, in my feature writing class which I’m trying to develop into a in-depth reporting class, I decided about 15 minutes before the appointed hour for what was suppose to be a walkout of students around the campus, to give an assignment, which required the class to go check out the rally.
A New York Moment of Well Deserved Ridicule – Part III
Monday, March 2nd, 2009Murdoch’s So-Called Apology: Was He Snickering, Chortling As It Was Being Drafted?
The text of his apology is below, that is, tacked below the original narrative for this column which was planned as the last post on the controversy. I assume that by this date that anyone following this cartoon tempest has read or reviewed his statement that has brought this loud New York Moment to a close, and the SOB did it in grand form. I was surprised by the sudden deus ex machina. I assume it caught the Reverend Al Sharpton and the other active participants by surprise, especially the persuasiveness of the comment: The buck stops with me.
Did Time’s story say anything about the Post’s history of overt racism directed at the black communities of New York?
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Tags:Al Sharpton, cartoon controversy, cartoons, Jimmie Breslin, New York Daily News, New York Post, NEWS, news stories, Rupert Murdoch, Spike Lee, Stepin Fetchit, The National Alliance of Third World Journalists, The National Association of Black Journalists
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