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August 19, 2009

Times Blogger Accused of Karaoke Bias (Updated!)

Runnin' Scared
by Roy Edroso

Back in March, a correspondent from the Times' Fort Greene Blog posted a photo of himself doing karaoke with a staffer from the campaign of councilmember Tish James Tish James' "official staff site," Team Tish. "No political endorsement is implied here," added blogger Andy Newman. "I would just as gladly have duetted with someone from the campaign of Ms. James's challenger, Delia Hunley-Adossa, if such a person had materialized."

It was a night [cue sinister music] that Andy Newman would come to regret...

On August 12, a different Times blogger chided Hunley-Adossa for not being available to media enquiries. Yesterday Hunley-Adossa defended herself in a Brooklyn Courier Life article, charging the paper is biased in favor of James -- and in defense of her charge "pointed out that Times reporter Andy Newman... published a photo of himself singing karaoke with the woman who runs James' blog," the Courier Life says. Hunley-Adossa added, "I'm not sure he would sing with one of my staffers."

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NoLandGrab: There's no shortage of irony in the fact that Atlantic Yards beat reporter Stephen Witt, who gave voice to this silly, baseless story of media bias, threw a big old bear hug around Atlantic Yards developer Bruce Ratner at the public hearing on the project's draft environmental impact statement on August 23rd, 2006. Media bias indeed!

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A Short Story, Delia Can You Hear Me?

Posted by eric at August 19, 2009 9:50 AM