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Monday, July 6, 2009

True News: Leads the Media Again

True News: Leads the Media Again
True News first with the breaking news, analysis and trends. July 1 True News New York's Economic Melt Down, No Clown Affair Today's Daily News Senate follies coupled with tax shortfall equal huge N.Y. budget nightmare

From True News, July 1, 2009:
While the circus is the media story of the day the real story is the destruction of the state's economy. New York tax receipts may be down 35 percent this year. Paterson's already warned of a $3 billion shortfall on the budget past 2 months ago. Comptroller DiNapoli has also noted that receipts are tanking: Personal-income-tax receipts were down nearly $3 billion, or 44 percent, from May 2008. General-fund revenues dipped by nearly $4 billion, or 36 percent IT'S ONLY JUST BEGUN *** NYC's jobless rate jumped to 9% in May over 100,000 in the last 9 months *** Wall Street job losses may hit 46000 by 2010 *** Manhattan: Downturn Leaves Familiar Imprint On Financial District *** Job losses continue in northern suburbs; Westchester unemployment ... *** Buffalo job losses mount - Business First of Buffalo

New York's Economic Crisis It's hard, after all, to overstate the magnitude of the crisis: For years, City Hall and Albany have relied heavily on Wall Street to carry the load for government's lavish spending programs. But the recession fundamentally reshaped the city's financial sector -- leaving Wall Street seriously diminished. Today, the role of banks, brokers, insurance companies and related firms (not to mention other parts of the commercial world) in the city's economic future remains far from clear *** 'LOTS' OF WOE IN W'BURG STALLED BUILDING SITES *** Welfare Checks to Increase for First Time in 19 Years *** Volatile Swings in Price of Oil Stir Fears on Recovery *** Job Retraining May Fall Short of High Hopes *** California's Nightmare Will Kill Obamanomics...USA lurching towards 'debt explosion'... *** Stella D'oro Factory to Close in October *** Senate Deadlock Puts Yonkers in a Budget Squeeze ***
Bloomberg Freezes Hiring, Blames Senate *** Democrats Seek Unity in Blaming Republicans

"New York is Falling Apart" Fred Dicker (NYP) ALBANY, I GIVE UP STATE GOVERNMENT HAS NEVER BEEN SO CLOWNISH, SO EVIL, SO IRRELEVANT

Albany Circus MINORITY BACKERS LIKE 'GOV. CUOMO' *** DN Editorial: Just go homeJust go home: Queens Assemblywoman Margaret Carrozza lives in big-bucks L.I. mansion - arrogance toward the law, arrogance toward New York City, arrogance toward the people who live in her district *** Gov. suggests Dems soften stand, give plum role to Espada ***Paterson sides with Dems on power sharing *** Holiday weekend ends without Senate deal *** Sunday session: A lot like last Sunday’s session *** NY Senate factions remain deadlocked (Crains) *** Senate starts 4th week in limbo *** Paterson takes frustration of NY Senate on road

Education Wars DN says senate will back mayoral control the NYT is not sure Daily News: DEM'S CLASS ACTION SENATORS OK MIKE'S CONTROL, NY Times: Mayoral School Control Less Assured in Senate *** Education spending skyrocketed under Bloomberg From the NY Times

If you fight Bloomberg expect a push back: Senators seem to be coalescing against Sen. John Sampson's idea of removing the mayor's ability to fire PEP members *** Some of Sampson's campaign donors also got member items from the Brooklyn lawmaker

Why Not Fix Problems Instead of Playing Politics? With the U.S. Attorney still investigation dozens of City Council member, developers destroying manufacturing and the neighborhood culture of the city, why is the NYP editorial so hot to elimination of the Public Advocate office. Why not revise the City Charter to solve the problems with the council and all the cities problems

Road to City Hall The NYT calls Thompson the stealth candidate wonder what they call Avella? Thompson, the Stealth Candidate. Why not examine the why the media covers a very popular mayor reelection that all the publishers of the city's papers made possible The New York Times' Real Feelings on Term Limits , New York City: Financial meltdown brings Bloomberg term-limit ... *** Artz's spin Morgenthau raps DA hopeful Snyder for 'pandering' *** Gioia having cow over milk prices! $6 a gallon is too high, he says *** Mayor Bloomberg's Safest City? *** Alan Chartock refers to Carolyn Maloney as “a far more accomplished legislator” than Kirsten Gillibrand, and “a woman of principle.” *** Paterson talks tough, but 'ineffective' tag hounds him *** Booker, Fenty And Bloomberg Woo The Young, Urban And

Dysfunctional Campaign
Press are the Enablers
Press Story on Controller Candidates: INFIGHTING THREATENS BILL TO BOOST BICYCLE PARKING

Questions Not Asked by the Press: How would you clean up the corruption in the NYC Controllers office? That question was asked by True New on April 29 of the candidates, there has been no answer to date Questions The Silence of the Lions: What the Comptroller Candidates Don't Want You to Know Corruption in the office The Wolf at Thompson's Door

More City News CITY READIES CART ATTACK The Health Department wants to yank the permits of more than 500 street food vendors after undercover investigators found widespread fraud *** A Calming Presence Amid the Groans and Screeches *** Developer leaves a mess behind From NY1 *** Which NYC hospitals have best, worst infection rates?

Washington Biden: U.S. will stand by Israel's side to defend against Iran *** Congress Shifts Into High Gear *** Firms Hire Hundreds Of Former Lawmakers And Congressional Staffers To Lobby Congress on Health Care

International Scores Said to Be Killed in Clashes in Western China *** India to Boost Spending to Spur Growth *** Honduras Standoff With Zelaya Heats Up

Media ‘Tonight Show’ Audience a Decade Younger (positive spin brought to you by the NBC, NYT partnership) *** Rise of Web Video, Beyond 2-Minute Clips *** Newspaper Apologizes for Seeming to Sell Access *** Report: 279 magazine closures in first half

Why Donate to True News Keep Real News Alive. Put simply, True News -- and the truth – cannot do more and could even end without financial help from the people who want to hold the government accountable for their actions. As you know True News, without any support, has fought to keep the real NYC’s investigative and analysis reporting era of great journalism alive. True News is a living memorial to publisher John Peter Zenger who was jailed in 1733 by the King for reporting to New Yorkers what was going on in their city. It is also in the tradition of the Ben Bradlee generation that believes that all reporters would not be doing their job if they did not follow the story until they got to the truth. Today’s reporters copy press releases from elected officials and lobbyists hired by the special interests who want to control the message. The lost circulation of newspapers has created a generation of young reporters who not only rely on elected officials and lobbyists for stories, but don’t even Google to find the historical context or, more importantly, the truth behind the stories they write. In this era of sell-out journalism, the public has become disconnected, powerless and trapped by a permanent government that has turned against them. The media blames an apathetic public for not voting even after democratic consultants act like an Orwellian 'Big Bother' threatening them to vote or be looked into. True News reports that the reason for the decreasing turn-out is the public no longer feel their votes matter. If you value hard hitting Investigative Journalism, don't let True News go the way of the Passenger Pigeon. The Newfield, Barrett, Kempton, Hammel of yesteryear are no more. Local TV news limits itself to good looking women and men reading about breaking fires and crimes, with few exceptions. What's left that isn't tabloid is a wasteland of superficial news, driven by political and corporate PR machines, sowing the fertile seeds of corruption public and private hand in glove. Despite the soft news we see, standard bearers play a significant albeit vestigial role. Newspapers constantly pick up stories from True News (without crediting us of course) avoiding the costs to investigate themselves. Without True News, the New York Press and this blog's over one and half million readers will be utterly lost in the wilderness. Only True News is explaining: How Blacks, the Poor and the Middle Class are Being Pushed out of Brooklyn Because of Albany's Tax Breaks for Luxury Developers and Apartments Gives Details How Lobbyists and Developers Run A Secret Shadow Government that Also Controls Elections With Big Money and Their Control Over the Media Investigates How Political Party Bosses Have Been Replaced By Lobbyists' Privatization of the Tammany Hall Machine Reports How the WFP and the Elected Officials Who Are Supported By Them Have Abused and Aggressively Broken Campaign Finance Laws. True news is not funded by special interests like the other news blogs. True News has been self-funded all these years. True News does not make nice with sitting politicians, developers, lobbyists to fund it or to provide its young clueless reporters with story ideas. True News wants nothing more than to scratch out a modest living in its aim to investigate, connect the dots, and get to the truth of every newsworthy story. To carry on in this mission, True News needs funding from people like you -- People Who Want Better Journalism in order to learn what is really going on in their government and fight the corrupt politicians. It's been written about True News Those of you who have an involvement in the dangerous game of politics, it may be of interest to know who’s telling the truth these days, and, whether the articles we read are real or imagined disinformation, emanating directly out of a governmental PR department. No genuine journalist would ever rely on such a source for the truth. As publisher of the SoHo Journal, through personal experience, take it from me that it is possible to become a political target for simply writing about the truth. And the mainstream media and writers eat their own for sales— as well as take orders from their masters— corporate, financial and political masters. Always pay attention to the agenda. Read between the lines. That is the basis of real reporting and political comprehension. Not the rehashing of a press release. OWS had a handle on this reality as well. Pay attention to the current daily blog written by Gary Tilzer. His True News is one of the few remaining sources for political investigative reporting. His fearless reporting of the truth in political circles is worth noting. Contributors names are confidential

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On October 15, 1958, veteran broadcaster Edward R. Murrow delivered his famous "wires and lights in a box" speech (VIDEO) The Last Lion of Tammany HOW JIMMY McMANUS, MANHATTAN’S LAST GREAT TAMMANY DISTRICT LEADER, HELPED TO REVIVE HELL’S KITCHEN AND THE THEATER DISTRICT c By James S. Kaplan f On January 13, 2011, the law firm of Proskauer Rose moved into 11 Times Square, which is located on 42nd Street between 7th and 8th Avenues. In moving west to the final building of the City’s Times Square redevelopment, the Proskauer firm joined such other major law firms as Cravath, Swaine & Moore, Covington & Burling, Roberts & Holland, and the advertising firm of Ogilvy & Mather. That such major professional firms, along with a number of newly constructed luxury apartment buildings on 42nd Street from ninth to eleventh avenue and trendy restaurants and off Broadway theaters would be located west of 8th Avenue in midtown would have been almost inconceivable fifty years ago. Tammany Last Stand Continued

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