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October 14, 2005

Atlantic Yards process a "modern blueprint"? Only if the Times ignores the evidence

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Two weeks after revelations of a BUILD/Ratner financial connection, the Times runs a story:

instead of using the two weeks to further develop the story--the obvious extension would be the way Ratner and BUILD have used race as a tactic (see Chapter 4 of my report)--the Times instead, in a 10/14/05 article headlined To Build Arena, Developer First Builds Bridges, decrees that this project is... a model.

An earlier online version of the story was headlined, "Seeking to Avoid Fate of Jets Stadium, Builder Treads His Way to Brooklyn Arena Plan," and it partly echoes that 6/9/05 Times article headlined Unlike Stadium on West Side, an Arena in Brooklyn Is Still a Go. In both, the Times focused on strategy over substance, skating lightly over numerous issues that deserve some "journalism of verification."

Read Oder's complete analysis of today's Times piece.

Posted by lumi at October 14, 2005 8:20 AM