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March 15, 2010
It came from the Blogosphere...
Black & Right 2010, Ex-Dealer To Co-Own NBA Team
Conservative African American journalist Bob Parks was slightly less impressed than some other media outlets by Jay-Z's role in last Thursday's Atlantic Yards groundbreaking.
As we all remember, Rush Limbaugh was considered too divisive to minority-own an NFL franchise, but it’s obviously okay for a former drug dealer-turned rap “artist” to co-own an National Basketball Association franchise.
...Jay-Z’s prior bad behavior paid off.
He’ll get to exploit his hood again, and liberals accomplished a land grab that would never occur in a white, middle class neighborhood. Unions and their workers will make out like bandits and the City and State of New York will have a temporary new source of revenue so they won’t have to make those tough decisions right away.
...Another great day in New York.
Coney Media, Big numbers can make the story and put it all in perspective. But too often they’re just bullshit.
Former Brooklyn Paper publisher-turned-blogger Ed Weintrob is about as convinced by the numbers as Norman Oder is.
At last week’s groundbreaking for the Barclays Center arena in Brooklyn (the planned future home for the New Jersey Nets), Gov. Paterson stated as fact long discredited job-creation figures: “This project at Atlantic Yards will yield 16,000 union construction jobs and 5,500 permanent jobs right here on the site.”
The Times published Paterson’s quote — within quotation marks — along with other nonsensical projections that weren’t attributed to anyone, even though it knows many of them to be false. Now, because these numbers appeared in the Times, other media end up citing them as fact, without qualification.
A Google News search the next day picked up 418 news articles that included references to “Barclays Center” and the numbers 16,000 and 5,500.
The Local [Fort Greene/Clinton Hill], Shopkeepers Unsure About Atlantic Yards Impact
As protesters and politicians let their voices be heard at Thursday’s Atlantic Yards groundbreaking, our reporters spoke to some local business owners about the project. The area shopkeepers we interviewed were unsure whether Atlantic Yards will be good for business. Check out the... audio slideshow for a sampling of reactions.
AutoblogGreen, Report: Prokhorov's upcoming hybrid vehicle due in 2012? [w/video]
Russian billionaire oligarch/playboy/jet-skier/soon-to-be-New Jersey Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov is getting into the car business.
Remember the news a couple weeks ago that Mikhail Prokhorov was planning on introducing a vehicle that would use "advanced technology"? The Russian news site RT is reporting a few more details on the upcoming vehicle.
NoLandGrab: Unless by "advanced technology" they mean "a car that can fly," Prokhorov will be better served using mass transit to get to "Brooklyn Nets" games, given the traffic havoc expected from an 18,000-seat arena plopped down at Brooklyn's worst intersection.
Right Side News, Rob Pfaltzgraff on Free-Market Movies, the MPI and the Future of Independent Films
The executive director of the right-leaning Moving Picture Institute talks about some coming films he's looking forward to seeing.
The Battle of Brooklyn explores the poorly understood phenomenon of eminent domain abuse. A feature-length documentary from respected filmmakers Michael Galinsky, Suki Hawley, and David Beilinson, this film explores how real estate developers, local government, community activists, and the media have clashed over the largest single-source development project ever proposed in New York City. Widely known as the Atlantic Yards Project, this undertaking has for the past five years been a major source of contention as local residents resist a billionaire developer's attempt to use eminent domain to seize their homes and businesses. Done in the name of "development," schemes such as this one eviscerate private property rights and make a mockery of the Fifth Amendment - even as they freely exploit lucrative taxpayer subsidies, easements, and tax abatements.
The Local [Fort Greene/Clinton Hill], Video Finish
We posted about this short film on the dueling Atlantic Yards groundbreaking "ceremonies" on Friday.
Posted by eric at March 15, 2010 2:19 PM