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September 29, 2006
Our invitation to Ratner
The Brooklyn Papers Editorial
BP got an earful from Forest City Ratner Executive VP Bruce Bender, who complained that the weekly paper is biased and distorts the truth. But when BP offered a chance for The Bruce-ster (aka Caring Bruce) to speak uncensored, the VP backed down:
Bender claims we don’t care about accuracy, but our retort has always been that we are simply covering the known impacts of the Atlantic Yards project — impacts that state officials readily acknowledged in their environmental impact statement.
Bender and his spokespeople have done little to assist our understanding of that document — not even offering us their spin so that more of our coverage might reflect the company’s thinking. As it is, we feel we do a good job pointing out what project supporters see as its benefits.
So that’s why, as we were chatting with Bruce Bender, we reiterated our long-standing invitation: We would like to interview Bruce Ratner, one on one, and print the full, unedited transcript. The reader could then judge for himself if our questions are fair and balanced. And he’ll get to hear Bruce Ratner’s vision — not edited or taken out of context. We’ll even upload the entire audio to our Web site so no one could accuse us of malfeasance.
But Bender said no.
Posted by lumi at September 29, 2006 9:27 AM