Land Use/Housing
How’s Mayor Adams Doing ? Don’t Ask, Many New Yorkers Say. (The New York Times)
When it comes to privatisation of strategic public assets, the journalists from the New York Times always appear to promote the transfer of title of public housing stock to private real estate developers, always ignoring the concerns that the private sector will never build low-cost housing for people living on low incomes.
Jeffery C. Mays / Dec. 29, 2023
Politics
OPINION : Eric Adams Is Battling for His Political Life (New York)
New York magazine published an opinion report about the Mayor Eric Adams emerging without charges in the face of a reported Federal corruption investigation into his campaign finance activities. The opinion report completely ignored repeated questions about ethics compliance throughout Adams' career. For example, we look at the Aqueduct racetrack casino controversy.
Errol Louis / Nov. 18, 2023
Politics
Two Young Democratic Stars Collide Over Israel and Their Party’s Future (The New York Times)
In describing that U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (DSA-NY 14) was in a "safely Democratic district," the New York Times ignored that her district partially overlapped with a New York City Council District, which has just elected a Republican to serve on the Municipal Legislature. How could New York's 14th Congressional district be "safely Democratic," if a portion of it voted for a Republican ?
Nicholas Fandos / Nov. 11, 2023
Elections
State Dept. cancels Facebook meetings after judge’s ‘censorship’ ruling (The Washington Post)
Corporated-owned legacy media, which rely on access for exclusives on political news stories, allegedly engage in obfuscation whenever the Government is accused of misconduct, particularly when it abridges free speech. In the case of election interference, corporate media portray restrictions on the Government's alleged misconduct as only benefiting the political right, whereas the political left have been known to also support free speech causes.
Joseph Menn / July 5, 2023
Elections
Federal Judge Limits Biden Officials’ Contacts With Social Media Sites (The New York Times)
Corporated-owned legacy media, which rely on access for exclusives on political news stories, allegedly engage in obfuscation whenever the Government is accused of misconduct, particularly when it abridges free speech. In the case of election interference, corporate media portray restrictions on the Government's alleged misconduct as only benefiting the political right, whereas the political left have been known to also support free speech causes.
Steven L. Myers / July 4, 2023
Healthcare
Opinion : We are overcounting covid deaths and hospitalizations. That’s a problem. (The Washington Post)
Dr. Leana Wen, a physician many have accused of subverting her medical and scientific independence to politics, has repeated the claim that COVID-19 deaths are being over-counted. Although public health doctors have repeatedly said that calculating COVID-19 deaths can lead to some discrepancies when measured using different methodologies, those discrepancies shouldn't be used to diminish the true toll of pandemic deaths.
Leana S. Wen / Jan. 13, 2023
Politics
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is subject of House ethics investigation (The Guardian)
U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (DSA-NY 14) deflected responsibility for having accepted valuable gifts in connection with her highly-publicised attendance of the élite Met Gala in 2021. To do so, her spokesperson falsely claimed that an Ethics Committee investigation would be dismissed.
Martin Pengelly / Dec. 8, 2022
Law/Crime
New York City Will Increase Police Presence in Subways to Combat Crime (The New York Times)
The New York Times has faced criticism that, particularly in respective of its law enforcement journalism, it reports the Government's position without balance from critics of the Government's law enforcement Agencies. In the past, increased deployment of police officers into the subway system resulted in the appearance of disporoportionate targeting, or discriminatory arrests, of migrant food vendors, for example. The perspective of the risks, or dangers, of such Broken Windows policing was missing from this latest report.
Emma G. Fitzsimmons / Oct. 22, 2022