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Oder Sniffs Out the Stories
Norman Oder's yeoman work proves the New Yorker's Nicholas Lemann wrong in his
analysis of bloggers and citizen journalists. Boy does he ever prove him wrong
(along with many other bloggers.)
Oder concludes his response to Lemann with the line below. (NOTE TO MSM reporters
and editors: Oder is providing you with day after day of story ideas, angles,
analyses, research, fodder for opinion pieces and editorials. It's his gift to
you. Accept it. Run with it.)
from Atlantic Yards Report: A
response to the New Yorker on bloggers and journalism
Indeed, what journalist in New York has the time to try to read and
analyze the Empire State Development Corporation's Draft Environmental Impact
Statement?
To wit:
•High
crime in the footprint? ESDC blight study says yes, but it's a stretch
•Not quite public: FCR plans private events at Urban Room & AY open
space
•AY plans revealed: temporary parking + staging slowly eclipsed
•Shadowy AY open space OK, says DEIS, because it's better than nothing
•ATURA, crime, and the Times's blight story
•Each AY tower would dwarf (in sf) that 31-story public housing tower
•"Miss Brooklyn" would be 3X the Williamsburgh bank (in sf)
•"Friendly condemnations" (but not for renters): ESDC plans eminent
domain for most of AY
•Instant gentrification? DEIS says no, statistics say yes
•Spitzer, local officials tell ESDC: Give community more time to study DEIS
•Would half of the affordable apartments be 2br & 3br? No way (read
the fine print)
•DEIS released; AY cost reaches $4.2 billion; Gargano, Stuckey defend scale;
hearing August 23
and on and on. Just
go there.
Posted: 8.03.06
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