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February 3, 2007
From the editor: Our Barclays coverage
Brooklyn Paper's Editor insists they checked their facts before publishing their story, and found everything on the up and up. Read the full editorial for a full disclosure of source material.
Barclays has requested a retraction from this newspaper (and others) for stories about the bank’s link to slavery and other dark moments in human history (see the bank’s letter, written by spokesman Peter Truell, by clicking here).Our stories regarding Barclays were based on information acquired from respected sources and, as a whole, do not merit a retraction.
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Our news stories were not an examination of whether Barclays had profited from slavery — all banks did, so to pretend otherwise is silly. Rather, our initial article — and its follow-up, “Black leaders rip Ratner’s $400M Barclays arena deal” — centered on the outrage that black leaders like Councilwoman Letitia James, Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries, former Assemblyman Roger Green, and some church pastors — felt after hearing about the Ratner-Barclays contract.We didn’t manufacture their outrage; we reported it, leaving our readers to decide for themselves if the bank’s past bothered them.
Posted by amy at February 3, 2007 9:57 AM