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” … metastasizing wrongful conviction scandal …”
Friday, February 7th, 2014NYT and the Julian Assange Smear Campaign
Monday, March 7th, 2011
By Peter Hart, March 2, 2010
WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange believes people are out to smear him and his organization. That much seems clear. Today (March 2) the New York Times’ Ravi Somaiya writes a piece that would seem to confirm those suspicions.
Read full blog here.
2010: The Year in Pictures – New York Times
Sunday, December 26th, 2010Haunting similarities between the images of earthquake ravaged Haiti and Katrina ravaged New Orleans. Click here for Times link.
A Quote Too Good to Be Overlooked
Sunday, November 7th, 2010Okay, I know lots and lots of folks – trash-ers as well as supplicants — read the NY Times and post the readings all over the place as if no one else reads the Times like they do. But this quote was too good to be overlooked and my students are in the back of my mind when they aren’t in the front:
This is a snapshot of a whiplashed country that (understandably) doesn’t know whose butt to kick first. — Frank Rich, NY Times, November 6, 2010.
Wikileaks’ Julian Assange Was the Target of a Dirty Trick — NY Times Reports (in So Many Words)
Saturday, August 21st, 2010So reporteth the Times:
LONDON — Julian Assange, founder of the whistle-blower Web site WikiLeaks who has been embroiled in a fight with the Pentagon over the recent release of classified documents, briefly became the focus of new attention on Saturday when Swedish prosecutors sought him for questioning on rape allegations — then quickly said the accusations were unfounded. — Full story here.
Wikileaks said in a blog post earlier than the Times’ breaking story:
On Saturday 21st of August, we have been made aware of rape allegations made against Julian Assange, founder of this project and one of our spokespeople.
We are deeply concerned about the seriousness of these allegations. We the people behind WikiLeaks think highly of Julian and and he has our full support.
While Julian is focusing on his defenses and clearing his name, WikiLeaks will be continuing its regular operations.
The WORD to Wikileaks: Release the Kracken, all 15,000 tenacles.
“Defending Arizona: It’s U.S.’s Fault for Not Wrecking Lives, Damaging Economy”
Saturday, May 8th, 2010
Jim Naureckas critiques a New York Times columnist criticizing critics “impugning the motives” of the new Arizona immigration law, which has been denounced as a “Nazi” or “near-fascist” law, a “police state” intervention, an imitation of “apartheid,” a “Juan Crow” regime that only a bigot could possibly support.
Uh Oh!
Tyger, Tyger Burning Bright …
Wednesday, March 31st, 2010Is Robert Wright of the New York Times out of his mind?
When Tiger Woods tees up his Nike golf ball at the first hole of the Masters next week, will you be wishing him well? Or will you hope he yanks his drive into the pines and spends four days trudging toward the searing defeat that, in your view, he richly deserves? Be honest. This is a moral litmus test. In fact, it’s a test for all of America — a test of where our moral consciousness is these days.
The Tiger is a corporate entity, the litmus test about corporate Amerika’s morality/ethos, not “our moral consciousnesss.” You can read the full Times blog here – yuck.
PUSHBACK – Resistance Is Futile But Anticipated
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010This is an introduction of sorts to a six-part series. A few years ago, I invited the New York Time’s first Ombudsman to my journalism ethics/responsibility class. That position, now occupied by Clark Hoyt, is primarily known now as the New York Times Public Editor. I’m speculating that the presence of a Public Editor is more preferable to Ombudsman which sounds akin to a lawman enforcing the law in a lawless community (at least, that’s how I imagine the NYT natives perceive the position when it was announced in the wake of the Jason Blair scandal and other journalistic ignominies which didn’t get as much attention but contributed to marring the public image of the Times).
Eunji Jang Redux
Friday, January 1st, 2010
File Photo: On assignment for a story.
For her journalistic work with New York Times Reporter Kirk Semple for “Suicides Soar Among New York Koreans,” Jang, who speaks and writes fluent Korean, and interns for New America Media, earned a Contributing Tag at the end of the story.
NYT news lead for the double suicide of Yongho and Soonhee Kim, February 25, 2008:
They had navigated the move from South Korea and opened a nail salon on Long Island, but by last winter, Yongho and Soonhee Kim were in debt and deeply unhappy. They were fighting a lawsuit over nonpayment of rent on the Long Beach salon and were months behind on rent payments for their apartment in Oakland Gardens, Queens. The bank had repossessed their car.
Courtesy The Korean TimesSoonhee, left, and Yongho Kim.
At dawn on Feb. 25, the couple left a note for their 20-year-old daughter outside their apartment door, doused themselves with gasoline and set themselves on fire, the police said. The blaze killed them and destroyed their home.
“They 100 percent lost hope,†said Mr. Kim’s brother-in-law, Chi Kun Park.
An earlier story was published/broadcast by NAM in July. NAM’s Odette Keely interviewed Jang about a piece that the Korean Times in NYC wrote about Korean suicides in America.
Stinkiest Journalism of the Year
Tuesday, December 27th, 2011Occupy the PU-litzers!
Read full story here.
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