January 8th, 2013
… Routinely Making Unconstitutional Street Stops Outside Clean Halls Buildings Across the Bronx
January 8, 2013 — From NYCLU: The NYPD has a pattern and practice of illegally stopping innocent people in public areas outside thousands of private apartment buildings in the Bronx and must immediately end this unconstitutional practice, a U.S. District Court judge ruled this morning.
The victory comes as part of a federal class-action lawsuit filed in March by the New York Civil Liberties Union, The Bronx Defenders, LatinoJustice PRLDEF and the law firm of Shearman & Sterling LLP challenging the NYPD’s enforcement of Operation Clean Halls – a citywide program within the Police Department’s stop-and-frisk regime that allows police officers to patrol in and around certain private apartment buildings.
Full story here.
More later.
Tags: Mayor Bloomberg, NYCLU, NYPD, police harassment, Stop & Frisk
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January 5th, 2013
Posted on the D:F/M listserv AKA fm-l by a Hee Haw Ranger:
A review of Professor Kelly Anderson’s film “My Brooklyn” was published in today’s [January 4] New York Times Movies section.
Will the WORD do a review?
Tags: film reviews, Hee Haw Rangers, movie reviews, Princess Hee Haw
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January 5th, 2013
As if he was reading my mind:
When I first stumbled into blogging over 12 years ago, it was for two reasons: curiosity and freedom. I was curious about the potential for writing in this new medium; and for the first time, I felt total freedom as a writer. On my little blog, I was beholden to no one but my readers. I had no editor to please, no advertiser to woo, no publisher to work for, no colleagues to manage. Perhaps it was working for so long in old media that made me appreciate this breakthrough so much. But it still exhilarates every day. [Full Column here]
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Tags: blogging, journalism, The Future of Journalism, writers
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January 3rd, 2013
Tags: D:F/M, dysfunctional academics, Hunter Department of Film and Media Studies, Jennifer Raab, Office Politics
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January 3rd, 2013
Al Jazeera, financed by the government of Qatar, reportedly purchased Current TV: NYT – Al Jazeera Seeks a U.S. Voice Where Gore Failed: “Going forward, the challenge will be persuading Americans to watch — an extremely tough proposition given the crowded television marketplace and the stereotypes about the channel that persist to this day.” Full NYT Media Decoder story here.
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Tags: Fox News, Journalism Today, Rupert Murdoch
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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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December 29th, 2012
I’m amazed at my students whose lives and families and homes took major hits from Hurricane Sandy (and lest I forget the economic failures also stalking their lives and their families and neighbors) but who, nevertheless, pulled their own weight, didn’t whine or moan, were stalwart and made contributions to their communities and to others and showed compassion.
Truly amazed.
Instructors should never underestimate their students … but it happens.
Tags: America's economic recession, college students, Hurricane Sandy, overcoming tragedies
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December 26th, 2012
Hunter Campus Safety Officer telling student early in the start of the fall semester that he can’t videotape on school property.
Should the Princeton Review be alerting prospective film, art and journalism students that Hunter students are subject to harassment if they try to take pictures and video on campus?
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Tags: Campus public safety officers, CUNY, Hunter College, Louis Mader, Princeton Review, The First Amendment
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