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February 26, 2012
A house ad in the Times and a question mark about coverage of Forest City Ratner's role in the Yonkers corruption case
Atlantic Yards Report
It was curious that, after a Forest City Ratner executive testified last Thursday about the developer's questionable behavior connected to its Ridge Hill project, a key part of the corruption case against two Yonkers figures, no article appeared in the New York Times.
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After all, the Times had two reporters in the courtroom and, by any objective standards, the goings-on were more newsworthy than, say, coverage of promotional efforts by the Nets. After all, also taking the stand was the current mayor of Yonkers, Mike Spano, a former lobbyist for Forest City.
And the Times, presumably, has unfettered space online in its CityRoom blog.
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It seemed even more curious after a look at the print paper Friday. There, at the bottom of A22, a page devoted to metropolitan coverage, was a house ad (right) for the Times. Such house ads are typically used to fill space when there's no paying ad or article to take precedence.
Had the Metro desk prepared another news article for print, it could have fit in that space. But it didn't.
Posted by steve at February 26, 2012 5:44 PM