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April 5, 2007
Times plays catchup on AY, bobbles several balls (and forgets disclosure)
Atlantic Yards Report goes back to it roots and critiques today's coverage in the Times.
In a roundup article today headline Clearing of Atlantic Yards’ Site Proceeds as Legal Thicket Grows Denser, the New York Times catches up on some of the Atlantic Yards news it has missed, but the article also offers some mischaracterizations and fails to ask some hard questions.
First, Oder points out that reporter Andy Newman mischaracterized the lawsuits as aiming to "substantially scale back" Atlantic Yards.
Well, neither the pending eminent domain lawsuit nor the challenge to the environmental review scheduled to be filed today by a coalition organized by Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn aim to scale back the project; they aim to kill it or alter it drastically.
Doh! The NY Times forgot to mention that they are partners with developer Forest City Ratner in the Times Tower.
NolandGrab: Maybe the paper only publishes a disclosure when reprinting FCRC press releases.
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Posted by lumi at April 5, 2007 10:45 AM