Supported by: Occupy Wall Street General Assembly; Occupy Cleveland GA; OWS Anti-War Working Group & 700 signers online including Boots Riley and Scott Olsen from Occupy Oakland.
Bull 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.
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.
TheWORD’s Senior Editor Colleen Siuzdak did a thorough reporting job on this article, including the only journalist thus far to interview Muslim students at Hunter about this questionable surveillance.
Huffington is the respondent in a class action lawsuit recently filed against the Huffington Post.com, Huffington Post owner Arianna Huffington, et al, and AOL.com, Inc.
Stinkiest Journalism of the Year
Tuesday, December 27th, 2011Occupy the PU-litzers!
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Tags:CNN, corporate journalism, mainstream journalism, New York Times, OCCUPY, WNYC
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