July 28th, 2009
Official organization of NYFD African American Firefighters
[Picture Courtesy of Center for Constitutional Rights]
By now, one would believe, that there would be numerous stories in metro New York City news media about the federal judge’s decision regarding United States, et al. v City of New York, a federal class action lawsuit originating from two Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charges filed by Center for Constitutional Studies on behalf of the Vulcan Society and three individual African-American firefighter applicants, charging the New York City Fire Department with racially discriminatory hiring practices.
Nope.
But there is an online front-page story in the
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Tags: African American firefighters, Black Firefighters, Civil Rights Act, EEOC, et al. v City of New York, FDNY, The Chief, U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis, United States, United States et al. v City of New York, Urban Fire Departments, Vulcan Society
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July 26th, 2009
His CNN segment this morning about the news reporting and commentating on the Cambridge-Obama Never Ending Story (So Far) was exceptional, I believe, and so informative I’m planning to use transcripts of the show for my J-classes.
I also liked an earlier “CNN’s Howard Kurtz Criticizes CNN’s Lou Dobbs For Giving Airtime To ‘Birther’ Conspiracies.” No attempt here to comment or summarize. The serious should go to the source.
July 28 Update, NY Times.
Tags: CNN, Howard Kurtz, Lou Dobbs, Reliable Sources
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July 24th, 2009
Why hasn’t any reporter asked the President if he or his wife have ever experienced the kind of harrassment that Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates experienced in his home? Or the kind of experience that the Center for Constitutional Rights and the New York Civil Liberties Union have been documenting about the NYPD treatment of People of Color in New York City. There are other forms of bigotry that blight the American Dream.
Personally, this writer is glad the Prez said what he said about the “stupidity” of the police at the scene. But this late night thought needs development.
Tags: Cambridge controversy, race relations
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July 24th, 2009
Is this a bombshell decision or what?
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Tags: African American firefighters, Black Firefighters, Center for Constitutional Rights, class action lawsuits, EEOC, Judge Sonia Sotomayo, NYFD, Uniformed Firefighters Association, United States of America and Vulcan Society Inc. v. City of New York, Vulcan Society
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July 24th, 2009
Keep up the pressure for a media debate on healthcare reform that includes single-payer.
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Tags: FAIR, health care
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July 24th, 2009
This is a moment in history when serious discourse is necessary but here comes the seriously insufficient and deficient news reportage, exemplified, on short notice, by this story published by the New York Daily News, the only big urban daily ever found guilty in a federal discrimination lawsuit of of abusing the job rights of people of color on its editorial staff.
[It also has to be said, based on old Press Clips from the Village Voice and other news sources whose specific names and dates don’t come to mind right now, that Italian Americans also had rough times at the News because of their ethnicity].*
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July 22nd, 2009
… Also in Queens and the Bronx
Health E-News – NYC Gov. on Jul 21, 2009 – Six rabid animals – all raccoons—have been identified in New York City this year. Four were found in the Bronx, one in Manhattan (near Inwood Hill Park), and one in Queens (Long Island City). Raccoons are the most commonly reported rabid animals in New York City.
Considering the breadth of local broadcast news coverage in the last few days, one would think that an  animal story of this magnitude would be popping up on the screen.
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No direct relation to the ones identified in NYC boroughs
Not so (so far).
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Tags: health news, mainstream news media, rabies, Rupert Murdoch, slow news days
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July 21st, 2009
Brown, a no-show tonight. John Roberts fills in. Â Race shows up, though not the lead story, but in prime time view:
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Tags: Campbell Brown, CNN, Obama, Obama not an U.S. citizen
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Tell the News Media to Get It Right
July 24th, 2009Keep up the pressure for a media debate on healthcare reform that includes single-payer.
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Tags: FAIR, health care
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