Tag: MEDIA
The most frustrating part of Bill de Blasio’s mea culpa about the “botched” plow job on the Upper East Side after the snowstorm was that by apologizing, the mayor was privileging the wealthy UES over the city’s other snowbound neighborhoods. He played right into the New York Post’s weather class warfare non-narrative, despite the fact […]
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Everyone knows the New York Post is not a paper that defines itself by its accuracy. It’s a tabloid prone to frequent misreporting and so it’s not surprising that their gossip section is also inept at getting things right. But even by Page Six’s lowly standards, the item on Bill De Blasio published earlier this […]
New York City got hit with a lot of snow last night. And while it will surely inconvenience us–and provide Bill de Blasio with the first big challenge of his brand new mayoralty–it will be nothing like the quaint, Dickensian chaos New Yorkers faced a century and a half ago, before the days of SUVs […]
One month of its instatement, the NYPD’s blackout on local crime news is still in effect. In December, the department stopped allowing precincts to provide information about crime to reporters, instead funneling all requests through the office of the Deputy Commissioner for Public Information, effectively cutting off information about local crime. Brooklyn Daily and Gothamist dug into the […]
“There’s nothing that can’t be bought for the right price,” boasts Chen Guangbiao, announcing his plans to “buy” The New York Times. But The New York Times is not actually for sale (yet?) and is worth $1 billion, while Chen Guangbiao is worth just $740 million. Despite the groups of investors and share-holders Chen Guangbiao is claiming to […]
Fox News published a story on its website Monday about the government shutdown that reeks of The Onion. “How to visit national parks during the partial gov’t shutdown,” reads the headline. And then they go there: National parks were not exempt from the government shutdown but that does not mean you can’t ‘visit’ the nation’s […]
Along with the New York Post’s snazzy new website redesign comes a prominent link to the rag’s merchandise store, which features a few shirts and other things that are a lot smarter on the whole than the Post deserves. Among them is this t-shirt featuring the Post‘s cover from Obama’s election day in 2008, which got us thinking: […]
Russian news organization Russia Today has recently been banned from the popular Reddit forum r/news for allegedly spamming and manipulating upvotes on the thread, subsequently promoting its own stories as not only factual, but popular on the site as well. Doesn’t that sound just a little bit like propaganda to you? However, fans of the news organization have equated this […]
My Grandfather, a Roma who spoke four or five languages when he snuck into this country, once dove out the bathroom window to escape immigration officers who’d come to his door. He drove what he would later call an “embarrassing” amount of food up to General MaCarthur’s place when he was stationed in the Phillipines […]
