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May 14, 2006
Blogger, Journalist or Both?
i-Team Blog:
The question came up after Dan Klores Communications, the public relations firm hired by Nets owner Bruce Ratner to put a postitive spin on his proposed $3.5 billion megadevelopment, barred Norman Oder from its press conference with architect Frank Gehry and landscape architect Laurie Olin. Oder is a longtime journalist who is the blogger behind The Atlantic Yards Report, and he has been one of Forest City Ratner’s most dogged critics.Oder is certainly not a neutral, objective observer in this fight, but the guy has an encyclopedic knowledge of the issues surrounding the Atlantic Yards and consistently raises good questions about a project that will influence Brooklyn’s future for decades to come. And that’s a good thing for a project with so many question marks: What will be the health and environmental impacts? What about traffic and parking? Where will the thousands of new kids in the neighborhood go to school? How much money will Bruce Ratner and his partners make on this deal? What’s it ultimately going to cost taxpayers?
NoLandGrab: The Ratner crowd insists that their opponents are against progress and change. Ironic that they do not embrace new media.
Posted by amy at May 14, 2006 12:43 PM