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April 20, 2006
"Stretching the truth"--why can't the Times look critically at Forest City Ratner?
Atlantic Yards Report looks at the challenge of reporting on an issue in which he-said-she-said journalism doesn't tell the story. Today's post lists some of Forest City Ratner's specious numbers and claims, linked to easily verifiable documentation.
Norman Oder also points out that one subjective characterization in The NY Times was misleading and kind of unfair:
The Times's 4/16/06 article about bloggers observed of the new AtlanticYards.com web site: "A day later, the site had already drawn jeers from at least two blogs." But I had not merely jeered at the site, I had fact-checked the site and found several errors. Later I found photos that lied.
NoLandGrab: We are lifting our veil of silence and are coming forward to say that it was us — NoLandGrab was the site that jeered at AtlanticYards.com last weekend, as cited by the Times. Even a developer who repeatedly uses eminent domain to build a real estate empire at the taxpayers expense is funny sometimes.
So Norman Oder is right, while we were being snarky, he was actually contributing to the public discourse about the project (showoff!).
Posted by lumi at April 20, 2006 6:52 AM