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March 28, 2009
Take Note: News Corp Quietly Owns NYC Neighborhood Newspapers
BlackandBrownNews.com
This article voices concern over Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation acquiring neighborhood newspapers in Queens, the Bronx, and Brooklyn (including the Brooklyn Paper). The fear expressed by the author, a former communications director for Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, is that News Corp.'s moves signal the end of independent media in New York.
The role of the Brooklyn Paper in the Atlantic Yards fight is reviewed.
It was the Brooklyn Paper that was the chief media challenger of the Atlantic Yards Project, a major real estate development plan orchestrated by ONE real estate developer to redesign Brooklyn with the centerpiece of this grand design being a new NETS Arena designed by iconic architect Frank Gehry.
(Editor’s Note: You don’t have to live in New York City to get the scope of this real estate development project. Every major city has its own version of this project including the motley crew that makes it all happen.)
For at least three solid years it was the Brooklyn Paper – whatever its motivation – that challenged what seemed to be an unchecked process that gave the developer free reign to move ahead with over-the-top goals of redesigning Brooklyn, all with the stamp of approval of city and state authorities. I know this because at the height of public hearings surrounding this project I was communications director (a stint that lasted everso brief) for Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, who was the chief cheerleader for all things Atlantic Yards Project and a fierce advocate for that ONE developer. The Brooklyn Paper was relentless - as they should have been – in their reporting on this story.
Posted by steve at March 28, 2009 6:27 AM