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March 15, 2010
The New York Times and Atlantic Yards: A Pattern of Inadequate, Misleading, Mostly Uncritical Coverage. Still.
Atlantic Yards Report
For Norman Oder, Atlantic Yards has come full circle.
He first waded into the morass way back in 2005, when he wrote a lengthy, detailed report (not surprising) on The New York Times's failings in covering the proposed Brooklyn megaproject of Forest City Ratner, developer of The Times's headquarters building.
Apparently, no one at The Times has ever bothered to heed his critique.
My apologies. In my haste to shoot, process, edit, and transcribe video, then turn it into blog posts, and go to my office and do my job, I neglected to sufficiently explain how the New York Times disdained and misled its readers when it covered the Barclays Center groundbreaking.
The Times sent a reporter who had never covered the project before. Never.
Their rationale, apparently, was to send the guy available in the Brooklyn bureau. (At least they didn't send an unpaid "citizen journalist.")
I tried to warn them. On the Times's CityRoom blog, at 5:07 pm, well before deadline, I posted a comment that included my FAQ, aimed, among other things, to set the record straight about claims regarding jobs and tax revenues.
It didn't help.
Posted by eric at March 15, 2010 9:34 PM