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June 12, 2009
Brooklyn Paper, fulfilling predictions after Murdoch sale, endorses Gehry-less arena
Atlantic Yards Report
Norman Oder takes his red pen to this week's Brooklyn Paper editorial, which, after the sale of the paper to Rupert Murdoch's media empire, cannot be blamed on former publisher and arena fan, Ed Wientrob.
[The Brooklyn Paper] has not only retreated from aggressive coverage of the Atlantic Yards issue, it has continued to roll over for the project on the editorial page.
So, rather than taking an opportunity to criticize Atlantic Yards supporters for shameful behavior at the May 29 state Senate oversight hearing, the Brooklyn Paper this week urges that the AY arena be built. It's a follow-up from the "brutally weird" editorial the newspaper ran in February, shortly before it was purchased by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation.
And this time, the editorial is not signed by Ed Weintrob, the publisher who wrote the February editorial and is now publisher emeritus. So we can assume it's the corporate view. Convergence with the Courier-Life continues.
NoLandGrab: The Courier-Life was purchased by News Corporation in September, 2006.
Check out the rest of the article to learn more about how The Brooklyn Paper conveniently ignores the fact that the arena is now expected to be a money loser for the city and gets in the way of righting the project's "original sin."
Posted by lumi at June 12, 2009 5:32 AM