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Tabloid Times
Media Alert?
 Norman
Oder ponders the lack of attention paid to the 4 hour May 3rd court hearing on
"Atlantic Yards" from the Times and the dailies. Issues at
the very foundation of the project were argued in a court room for the very first
time and it was riveting; ample ground was covered to choose from for story making.
Each one of the dailies could have scooped each other, instead, too focused on
sensationalism, they pooped out.
From Atlantic Yards Report:
Times
covers window into suspect's mind, but not ESDC's mind
Judged by the allotment of column-inches, a reader of the New York Times would have to conclude that the trial of Peter Braunstein, a former writer for Women’s Wear Daily charged with the sex-abuse and kidnapping of a former colleague, is much bigger news than the legal battle over the Atlantic Yards project.
The Braunstein case, which has been huge in the tabloids, got extensive coverage in the Times this week, including a preview Monday, followed by trial coverage Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.
The Friday headline was "Suspect’s Purchases Are Cast as Window Into Dark Mind."
However, the window into the mind of the Empire State Development Corporation, whose Atlantic Yards blight designations were questioned sharply in court Thursday, went unexplored.
Neither the Times nor any other daily sent a reporter to Thursday's epic
hearing in the lawsuit over the Atlantic Yards environmental review. Brutally
weird...
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Posted: 5.05.07
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