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October 18, 2005

Ratner-Financed Publication Includes Pro-Yards Articles With Incorrect Bylines

The NY Sun
by David Lombino

It looks like a newspaper. It sounds like a newspaper. But, Ratner PR genius Joe DePlasco says anyone who can't tell it is funded by Ratner needs “an IQ test.” That's a real good one; we were wondering if Ratner expected Brooklynites to believe any of their nonsense: Jobs, Housing and Hoopla!

Meanwhile Nate Schweber is real pissed:

Freelance journalist Nate Schweber said he was surprised on Saturday to see his byline on the front page of the Brooklyn Standard, a publication financed by the developer Forest City Ratner that seeks to portray its proposed Atlantic Yards project in a positive light.

Mr.Schweber said he did not write that story or another attributed to him on page 18.He said the two business profiles he did write were edited to portray another Ratner development, the MetroTech Center, as a thriving commercial hub.

“I’m just livid,”Mr.Schweber told The New York Sun yesterday, “having my name on the two stories I didn’t write for a publication I was led to believe was a newspaper, not a piece of propaganda.”

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Posted by lumi at October 18, 2005 6:16 AM