The WORD’s Senior Editor Colleen Siuzdak is running down this story first reported by Leonard Levitt on his NYPD Confidential, about New York’s Finest (several of whom have been indicted in a ticket-fixing scandal; check out NY Daily News, Your Free Press, Huffington Post, Hizb ut-Tahrir America, et. al).
NYPD Spying on Hunter-CUNY Muslim Clubs
September 26th, 2011MEDP 292, AKA Basic Reporting, 2011, Fall
September 25th, 2011
Restrained
World Trade Center, One Day Before the 9/11 Tenth Anniversary
September 10th, 2011Was just scoping out the scene at WTC around 4 p.m.today, when I came across this pose below. They fly combat planes and fight fires so this picture shouldn’t be a big deal but the last time this photographer saw one with an automatic weapon was in Washington Heights, Manhattan, about 25 years ago: A Secret Service agent, blonde, white and in her mid 30s, briefly flashed the submachine gun concealed under her long coat to another agent, male, white, with whom she was talking. A visiting Dominican dignitary was visiting near 169th Street and Broadway.
The next picture is a hoot.
Like Phoenix Rising – Sort Of
September 3rd, 2011Awash in all manner of demands demanding his attention, the WORD editor has not been blogging for many weeks. That is about to change.
Promise (for those interested).
The New York Daily News
August 2nd, 2011The only American newspaper ever to lose a federal EEOC* case (because it refused to settle with the black employees it got caught discriminating against despite the obvious litigious peril it was in) is thumping its chest about this news gem – and it should:
Attention Arianna Huffington
August 2nd, 2011The National Writers Union will co-staff a picket line against Arianna Huffington, who is scheduled to appear at the upcoming National Association of Black Journalists’ convention in Philadelphia, Thursday, August 4, 2011.
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.
Where Is Rich Sanchez?
July 27th, 2011
Fired in October, 2010. His CNN dismissal followed a satellite-radio interview in which Sanchez said he was the victim of anti-Hispanic prejudice by Jewish media bosses. He also had said that Jon Stewart, who mocked him on The Daily Show regularly, was a bigot.
Comeback? Last “Google Citing,” 2010.
Norway: A Firsthand Account of the Massacre in Utøya
July 25th, 2011I headline hunt, using the mainstream news media for breaking news. So, if CNN or the NY Times or ABC, as examples, report a BNE, I go to the local news organization reporting the story. So, I can be “envious” of my students who read Spanish and French and, for the Utøya Massacre, Norwegian.
However, subscribing to GlobalVoices helps compensate for my ignorance. Norway: A Firsthand Account of the Massacre in Utøya – by Solana Larsen Read the rest of this entry »
New Jersey High Court Asked to Extend Shield Law to Bloggers
July 21st, 2011Yep, this is late but news worth: New Jersey and New York ranked high for states with strong shield laws for journalists. NJ even provides protection to student journalists.
By Michael Booth, New Jersey Law Journal, February 11, 2011
The state Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday on whether a blogger, being sued for defamation over her postings on a web bulletin board, can cloak herself in the New Jersey Shield Law and refuse to disclose a source.The justices are being asked whether the Legislature, in the relevant portion of the Shield Law, N.J.S.A. 2A:84A-21a(b), was meant to protect a class of writers that did not exist when it was enacted in 1977: those who post their writings on their own websites and on other online media.
Read entire article here.
9/11
September 10th, 2011Several days ago, New America Media invited this writer to attend a meeting of New York City-based ethnic journalists who would be talking about their articles for the tenth anniversary of 9/11. Asked about my plans – this writer hadn’t been planning to share – he spoke in tongues, that is, his response was as articulate as a person speaking with his tongue flailing the roof of the mouth and the sides of his teeth, upper and lower. Caught off guard, he couldn’t articulate, didn’t enunciate.
What follows is what might have been said or referred to if this writer had had the presence of mind many wish for when a signature moment beckons them to rise to the occasion: From the Center for Constitutional Rights regarding a panel discussion, September 12: The 9/11 Decade and the Decline of U.S. Democracy.
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Tags: 9/11, 9/11 ceremonies, American Democracy, American Freedoms, Civil Liberties
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