Archive for the ‘Journalism’ Category

NYT Times Latest Puff Piece About Hunter College President

Friday, September 6th, 2013

Amid Exits, President of Hunter College Is Assailed for Her Management Style comes in the wake of the resignations of an assistant dean and a dean – their departures roiling with disharmony – and the resignation of the College Legal Counsel, who also served as the Campus Ethics Officer, who left with no fanfair.

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Riposte: Re Kelly Anderson & Bernard Stein

Sunday, September 1st, 2013

Back in March, 2013, I wrote the post below on Hunter-L. It is a factually correct, straight forward description of the inner workings of the Department of Film and Media Studies. It was revelatory about D:F/M academic debauchery. Colleagues Kelly Anderson and Bernard Stein responded with posts on Hunter-L. I was surprised by their lack of candor in a public forum. And I will need to do another post to address Colleague Stein’s comments.

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Princess Hee Haw: Trash Talking

Friday, August 30th, 2013

Pissed off by what seem like never ending revelations on Hunter-L, a main Hunter College listserv, and department memos echoing the listserv postings about the debauching of the Department of Film and Media Studies, a Colleague posted the following listserv comment, referring to me, the primary protagonist for disclosure and transparency.
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The WORD at the 2013 New York Film Festival

Friday, August 30th, 2013

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Which D:F/M Colleague Or Colleagues Ripped Off Or Tried to Rip Off Projects Intended for Students?

Sunday, August 18th, 2013
D:F/M Colleagues.

D:F/M Colleagues.

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The Lund Paradigm

Monday, August 12th, 2013

This is a modified version of an email I sent to my Colleagues this past semester.  Andrew Lund is a Colleague who teaches in the film component of the Department of Film and Media Studies. This blog post addresses what I consider a major act of departmental calumny. Modifications regarding the email had to do with copyediting.

Every Colleague who signed off the November, 10, 2010 minutes, as scripted by Ricardo Miranda, knows the following is a BF Lie.

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More About Health Healthy Workplace Bill (S3863)

Saturday, August 10th, 2013

Sent [to D:F/M Colleagues]: Thursday, June 13, 2013 9:17 AM

To: New York State Senator Jeffrey D. Klein [jdklein@senate.state.ny.us]
Temporary President and IDC Coalition Leader

I am a tenured assistant journalism professor at Hunter College and I am writing to ask you to put Healthy Workplace Bill (S3863) on the Senate Finance Committee agenda before the legislative session ends.

Editor

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THE BUTLER Opens Next Friday, August 16, in New York City: But Will It Cop

Friday, August 9th, 2013
THE BUTLER Screening

THE BUTLER Screening

Will Forest Whitaker cop another Oscar? Will Director Lee Daniels cop his first Oscar? Will the screenwriter cop his first Oscar?

Editor’s Note: The original headline stating that THE BUTLER was opening August 9 was an OBVIOUS error.

The WORD & Twitter

Tuesday, August 6th, 2013

Am slowly nurturing twitter for the Big Offensive.
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Center for Constitutional Rights: NYPD Stop And Frisk

Tuesday, August 6th, 2013

The first time Kasiem Walters was stopped, he was 13 years old.