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March 6, 2008
Exclusive?
Brooklyn Daily Eagle's Henrik Krogius rather politely tells Brooklyn Paper editor Gersh Kuntzman, exclusive my ass:
When you are the fourth one to report a piece of news, it is a neat trick to claim exclusivity. Both the Brooklyn Daily Eagle and the Brooklyn Courier newspapers, following the Daily News, were already out with the story that Bruce Ratner had pulled out of a deal with CUNY City Tech to build Brooklyn’s tallest tower at Tillary and Jay Streets, when, late on Friday, the Brooklyn Paper hit the streets with its “exclusive” account. Maybe the paper just meant that its headline, “Ratner Kills Mr. Brooklyn,” was exclusive, or maybe it was that its editor, Gersh Kuntzman, had been away for a week when no issue had been published and assumed that what was news to him was news to the world. Every reader may not watch, but there are readers who do.
Posted by lumi at March 6, 2008 5:03 AM