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"Who is Philadelphia Daily News columnist Stu Bykofsky hating on right now?" is, I’m sure, what you roll over in your mind each morning as you brush your teeth and clip your toenails. Bicyclists? Immigrants? Those who do not celebrate Christmas?
Well, today, thankfully, you don’t have to read Byko to find out: In today’s paper, columnist Bykofsky condemns City Council for opposing Philadelphia’s participation in the Secure Communities deportation program. (Worse yet: he employs a grating fictitious "dialogue" between himself and a psychiatrist to do so.)
Dry town Ocean City, New Jersey is debating whether or not to allow BYOBs. The Philadelphia Daily News should be debating whether a philly.com “web poll” on the town’s alcohol laws constitutes news. It doesn’t.
Online polls are a stupid gimmick with zero scientific credibility. But writing an article about it — “In Web poll on O.C. booze ban, 36% say it makes the town a 'safer, cleaner resort'" — really strains credulity. What say you, People Paper? You are a fine, Pulitzer Prize-winning publication: why did you run this as news?
Happy Monday!
In celebration, I'm going to share a hitherto-tightly-held journalistic secret — a magic recipe for getting a scoop no one is likely to have. Just follow these steps:
1. Wait for Philadelphia Police to shoot or kill someone.
2. Ask questions.
That's what Daily News reporter Regina Medina did this week and — lo! — she stumbled on a slew of witnesses who contradict the police account of a shooting that left a young North Philadelphia man paralyzed.
Police say the man pointed a gun at them; witnesses say the police shot him in the back as he fled.
Medina's reporting, what's more, unearthed a witness who says the police called her "a white n----- lover," and asked her "why am I living in the jungle with a bunch of n-----?"
The story reminded me of a similar experience I had, after reading a tiny blurb in the daily newspapers about a man — Air Force veteran Harry Bennett — who was fatally shot by police, also in North Philadelphia, after being tased when he allegedly brandished a "meat cleaver."
A week late to the story, I went to the scene and found several witnesses who offered a very different story than that given by police and faithfully written down un-questioned by reporters. Among the various details witnesses offered was the observation — confirmed by four people independently — that police dragged the man's body, ankles-first, down a set of concrete steps while he was either bleeding to death or already dead.
In this weekend's case, one paper seems to have talked to witnesses and the other didn't — and it shows. The Inquirer's article on the same incident is only a few paragraphs long and contains only the police account of what happened. The DN, however, spoke to witnesses and obtained a completely different story than that offered by police.
Does that necessarily mean the police account is wrong? Of course not — but the police have a vested interest in giving simple, clean explanations. And that makes their stories worth checking.
Yesterday, a story appeared on philly.com in the Inquirer's print edition that we feel did a disservice to our intern reporter, Emily Apisa.
The piece, written by Melissa Dribben, focused on the efforts of La Salle University's student-run Collegian newspaper to print the details of an incident involving La Salle professor Jack Rappaport bringing strippers to a school lecture. According to Dribben, the student journalists initially planned to publish their story on April 7, but were forced to hold it by La Salle's administration.
The Collegian eventually ran its front-page story on April 14 — but not before Apisa, a La Salle student who is currently interning at City Paper. Apisa, who, like the Collegian, "had" the story long before it was published, managed to confirm its details and publish her article on CP's Naked City blog on April 8, before any other news outlet. (Two days later, Apisa was contacted by an Inquirer reporter who asked if she'd be willing to share her confidential sources. She, of course, did not.)
It's a big day for changes at the Inquirer and Daily News. Today, the companies' owners announced several changes: the addition of columnists Buzz Bissinger and Ed Rendell; the launch of new digital editions of the for e-readers (which will require a paid subscription); and a partnership â surprise! â with City Paper and The Onion.
On top of all that, CP was sent a copy today of a memo issued by Daily News editor Larry Platt to his staff. (The document has since appeared elsewhere in the blogosphere.)
It's a pretty interesting read â at one point, Mr. Platt lays out the paper's mission as: "People, Power, and Gossip."
In that spirit, we're sure he won't mind us reporting on the memo itself.
He calls for more "street-level" reporting, a harder focus on wresting readers' attention from reality TV and other competitors, and has this to say about the paper's identity with regard to the Inquirer:
I donât want to fall into the trap of feeling like we have to cover what the Inquirer covers. In fact, I want any Inquirer reader who picks up the Daily News to viscerally feel that he or she has had a totally different experience.
Finally, a word about our bigger mission. Youâre no longer in the newspaper business; we are, instead, in the Town Square business. We provide the last bastion of community in an ever-fractured world, and we touch the members of our community in myriad ways: via print, the web, apps, events, and other media outlets. What we do â what you do -- is vital.
Read the full text below the jump, and let us know what you think â reporters, your input is particularly welcome.
TO: The Staff
FROM: LP
DATE: January 31, 2011
RE: The New Daily News
First, let me take this opportunity to thank Michael Days for his graciousness during this transition, and for his many years of leadership at the Daily News. I also want to thank all of those who sent me ideas, comments and concerns these past couple of weeks, as a precursor to our one-on-one meetings, which weâll start this week. (If you havenât introduced yourself in an email and told me what you think should change around here and what by no means should change, please do.) I have to say, I was blown away by your passion for this place, and impressed by how many great ideas came flying at me.
As I said before asking for your input, making the Daily News a must-read for all of Philadelphia, turning our pages into a place where many different Philadelphias meet, argue and ultimately try and live together, is going to be a process we embark upon together. Iâve already heard many ideas from you that Iâd like to start implementing as soon as possible. In general, let me be clear about the journey weâre about to take: the times demand that, together, we reinvent ourselves. Weâre going to be a laboratory of innovation and experimentation.
What follows is a list of some things weâre going to do right away. Some require a change in attitude or philosophy; others are announcements of new content that hopefully will enlighten, entertain and make readers think. Here goes:
* I hereby free you from the tyranny of the Inverted Pyramid. When I first picked up the Daily News as an awkward adolescent on the outskirts of this city some (oy) 35 years ago, the Daily News spoke to me because of its palpable passion; this paper has always been all heart. We will continue to report the hell out of our city, in keeping with the highest standards of accuracy and fairness, but you should also not be afraid to have a point of view about what you report. Our pages should never be home to âhe said/she saidâ neutrality. Instead, you will be explicit adjudicators of factual disputes, and youâll be free to draw conclusions from your reporting. And youâll be encouraged to write with wit and verve and attitude.
* We wonât be predictably partisan, however. Weâll call it like we see it, without allegiance to one side or another. Our ideology will reside in our commitment to our reader. Consequently, tomorrow, weâll be changing our tag line from âThe People Paperâ to âThe Peopleâs Paper,â in order to underscore our populist mindset. Our tone should be wiseass reformist; crusading, but careful not to take ourselves too seriously, lest we morph into self-righteousness. Weâll be for honesty, openness, and fairness; weâll be against corruption, exploitation, and abuse of power. Weâll celebrate that which merits celebration and call out that which needs fixing.
* Because weâre going to be pushing boundaries, itâs important that we remain at all times introspective and thoughtful. Consequently, Iâm pleased to announce that legendary Daily News alum and Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Aregood has agreed to pen a monthly Public Editor column in our pages. Rich, now a journalism professor, will have the independence to criticize us and our decisions in our pages. Iâve told him I want him to hold us accountable and he and he alone will determine his content.
* Iâm also honored to announce that another Pulitzer Prize winner, best-selling author Buzz Bissinger, will serve as an editorial advisor and occasional columnist in our pages. Iâve known Buzz for nearly twenty years; heâs passionate and inspiring and often outraged. I plan on having some regular big-picture brainstorming sessions, often with Buzz in attendance. Yes, he cut his teeth at the Inquirer, and, until recently, penned a column for our sister publication. But Buzz is excited about what weâre doing here and his is a voice our city desperately needs.
* Speaking of loud voices, I also want to welcome our new sports columnist, none other than Ed Rendell. Some fifteen years ago, I sat with Rendell in the mayorâs box at Veterans Stadium while the Eagles waged a furious on-field comeback. He stood up, hoagie innards spewing from his mouth, while he pounded the plexiglas separating his box from that of new owner Jeffrey Lurie, trying to get Lurie and his nonplussed guests to join him in full-throated cheer. Lurie placidly kept his eyes glued to the field. Finally, waving in disgust, Rendell returned to his seat, saying, âThis is the football box; thatâs the quiche-eatersâ box.â As we know, none of that passion has waned in the intervening years. I look forward to our Fan-In-Chief surprising and amusing us in print every week, starting this Wednesday.
A couple of weeks ago, some of you were eager to hear about my priorities. Well, theyâre still evolving, enriched already by your ideas. Broadly, hereâs the way I see it: In addition to our mainstays of sports and investigative reporting, I think we should think of our content mission as existing under three primary rubrics: Power, People and Gossip.
In covering Power, the Daily News should report from street level, poking the reader in the ribs and telling him or her how things really do or donât get done in this city. Philadelphia is a town that is run for and by the same group of 300 insiders. We have an obligation to provide a road map for our readers as to how the transactional nature of our town can conspire against the common good. And we can do that in an entertaining way that holds the usual suspects accountable. Power, in this sense, ought to be broadly defined. It encompasses covering those who are wielding influence â be it in politics, non-profits, business or media â or who we think ought to be wielding influence. And our coverage of it should utilize all the amino acids of storytelling available to us â deep reporting, point of view, compelling photos, charts and graphs.
When I talk about covering People, I mean that the Daily News should be in the business of anointing the luminaries of Philadelphia. That includes writing profiles of the characters who are making a difference, but there are countless ways to chronicle those who make our city unique: small blurbs, gossip items, charts, photos, Q & Aâs. We can sometimes lose sight of this self-evident signpost: people want to read about people. After all, there are fascinating people out there doing wonderful work few have heard about â until we write about them.
Categories like Power, People and Gossip are, of course, purposefully expansive, because Iâm not laying down immutable dictums so much as jumpstarting a process of reexamining our priorities. But there are some concrete things we can do right away, which Iâll want to begin exploring this week. Call it packaging; the fact is we now compete for our readerâs time and attention with everything from blogs to magazines to reality TV, which makes seducing the reader into our publication arguably our most pressing mandate. Headlines, subheads, pull quotes, big stunning photos, a front page that absolutely refuses to be ignored â these are opportunities to, yes, manipulate the reader into losing him or herself in our pages.
I find it liberating that weâre not Philadelphiaâs paper of record. If you donât have to cover everything, you can actually cover anything. You can let your passion guide you. In other words, we are free to focus on giving our readers what they canât get anywhere else, which is a service to them -- while setting us apart from the pack. I donât want to fall into the trap of feeling like we have to cover what the Inquirer covers. In fact, I want any Inquirer reader who picks up the Daily News to viscerally feel that he or she has had a totally different experience.
Finally, a word about our bigger mission. Youâre no longer in the newspaper business; we are, instead, in the Town Square business. We provide the last bastion of community in an ever-fractured world, and we touch the members of our community in myriad ways: via print, the web, apps, events, and other media outlets. What we do â what you do -- is vital.
So we have to look at things differently than in the past. Iâm not a big rules guy, but thereâs one phrase we need to ban: âBut weâve never done that before.â Rethinking what we do ought to be exciting. And, in a sense, that spirit of adventure is in keeping with the inspiring history of this very place. In our pages, Bill Conlin reinvented the baseball game story, Zack Stalberg caught a mayor in a bald-faced lie, Pete Dexter gave voice to the voiceless, Chuck Stone relentlessly spoke truth to power, and Wendy Ruderman and Barbara Laker fearlessly exposed abuses of power. None of these journalistic tree-shakers were blindly wedded to formula or Columbia Journalism Review rules. They were all heart, like a great city tabloid has to be. They had the arrogance to trust their collective gut â again, just like a great tabloid. They told the stories of their times and let the chips fall where they may -- which is, in its own way, very brave.
Of course, most of the aforementioned groundbreaking work was done long ago. Itâs now time for a new generation of storytellers to leave its mark on this town. So I want this missive to spur internal conversation; our hallways should teem with talk of who we are and who we want to be, and my door will always be open for anything, including kicking this kind of stuff around. So stop by. Tell me what you think. Hit me with ideas. Think big. And letâs go out and change this fascinating, quirky, and maddening city.
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A piece on 60 Minutes this weekend asked a question that the gambling industry â and the many politicians who've allowed the proliferation of local, so-called "convenience" casinos â aren't eager to address: do these casinos merely attract gamblers who would spend their money out-of-state anyway, or do they create new gamblers?
At one point in the film, Governor Rendell loses his temper at interviewer Lesley Stahl, calling her and her producers "simpletons," and "idiots," for not understanding his point that casino patrons are going to gamble anyway:
"The biggest downside is that some people lose their paychecks. But understand, Lesley, they're not losing their paychecks because Pennsylvania instituted gaming. These people were losing their paychecks in Atlantic City, in Delaware at the racetracks, or in West Virginia."
But there's evidence to the contrary.
A 1999 report by the federally-mandated National Gambling Impact Study Commission noted that survey data "found that the
presence of a gambling facility within 50 miles roughly doubles the prevalence of problem and pathological gamblers."
It also cited a survey that found 7 or 9 communities reported a rise in problem and pathological gambling after a casino was introduced nearby.
In 2005, the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions found, according to an article in Science Daily, that:
A Casino within 10 miles of home has a significant effect on problem gambling and is associated with a 90 percent increase in the odds of being a pathological or problem gambler,
But some of the most compelling evidence this might be true is on display right now â just visit your local casino. During CP's 24-hour stay at Sugarhouse, for example, we found no shortage of people who had come from just miles away. One cab driver estimated that "I would say 90 percent of the people I take live less than eight blocks away."
Would all of those people have gone all the way Atlantic City instead â or would all of them have sought out illegal slots dens?
These are the critical questions and the ones that 60 Minutes demanded answers to in a way that hasn't been significantly tackled in the national mainstream media. Locally calls to the state's gambling addiction hotline have tripled. Meanwhile, crime certainly hasn't gone down. And for all the hoopla around revenues, PA faces its largest deficit in a decade. One has to wonder whether the state's reliance on gambling (its second highest revenue generator) might have something to do with that deficit and the failure to seek other revenue options (natural gas drilling tax perhaps?). At the end of the day, gambling as policy is economically and socially regressive (hitting the poor far more than the wealthy, ravaging other revenue, etc.) as well as morally bankrupt in terms of the fostering of addiction and poverty. It's a sad legacy for this Governor to leave.
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This Sunday, 60 Minutes will be airing a feature on gambling â slot machines, in particular â and whether the machines themselves might be ... addictive.
That this *shocking* possibility still evades nearly every mainstream news outlet in Pennsylvania is another story, considering the abundance of evidence readily available at your local casino.
In any case, The 60 Minutes piece, called "The Big Gamble," appears to contain something of a gem: In a preview (available online), Governor Ed Rendell appears to flip out on the reporters, calling them "simpletons," and "idiots" if they "dont get that," â althought what "that" is isn't clear from the clip.
It looks like it'll be an interesting watch, and there's a bonus: expect Ben Franklin flanked by sequin-bikini-clad women, from the opening of Sugarhouse in September.
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Fast Eddied's flippant comment to the general public and Leslie is a dead give away as to where his heart, soul and mind is! He has blood on his hand!
Critics say a new ad by the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board (PLCB), the part of state government that sells you wine and liquor, suggests that young women will be raped if they get drunk—and that it just might be their fault.
The high-end advertisement is shocking: it reads "Date Rape: See what could happen when your friends drink too much" over a woman's legs on the bathroom floor, underwear around her ankles.
“We have gotten lots of feedback, both positive and negative, on the campaign,” says PLCB spokesperson Stacey Witalec. “First and foremost our intention was never to offend anyone with the images but to bring about a greater conversation about the dangers of binge and problematic drinking. We did a lot of work with focus groups and a lot of research for this campaign, and heard from our target — individuals 21 through 29 — that these are scenarios they have faced and their friends have faced.”
PLCB has spent $600,000 on the campaign, produced by the Pittsburgh-based Neiman Group, which includes advertisements on the web and internet radio Pandora.
The ad links to the Control Tonight website, which includes a play by play of an evening gone wrong: “3:14am. Sexual Assault. That's what Anne's attorney will call it a month from now. She said no, but he kept going. And now, your friend is on his bathroom floor, bruised and victimized. See how you could have prevented this.”
Other pages tell the stories of a woman who gets alcohol poisoning and a guy who gets a DUI: “Arrested. Yup, that's your buddy Chris in the back of that cruiser. He'll be waking up tomorrow in a cell with a nasty hangover, and a brand new criminal record.”
As the feminist blog Jezebel put it, the ad “almost defies parody to make the case that if you drink too much, someone might rape your friend, and it will be your fault.”
“It's victim blaming,” says Siobhan Brooks, assistant professor of women's studies at Temple University. “It implies that it's ultimately the female's responsibility...instead of interrogating men and male culture around date rape.”
It is, she says, an extension of the “don't wear that” or "you're asking for it" argument: “if you do drink too much, the message normalized is that date rape will be a natural outcome. It reinforces the ideology that rape is natural for heterosexual men to do towards women.”
Witalec says “it was never intended to feel as if blame was placed anywhere but the perpetrator of the sexual assault. That specific ad is encouraging people to maintain control, and if you see one of your friends losing control, step in and help.”
They even, she said, did fieldwork. “We went into licensed establishments and engaged with the target group while they were engaging in consumption activities.”
A few weeks ago, we posed the question: What if there is no single "Kensington Strangler?"
... amid all the hype, it's not clear that the Kensington Strangler really exists â or, rather, that a single person has been responsible for certain recent crimes. In fact, it's not clear to what extent some of these crimes could happen fairly often.
To be sure, police have linked the same person (by DNA) to the two murders-by-strangulation that ignited the story. That Kensington Strangler does exist, and has yet to be identified.
But several more cases of murder and assault involving choking have not, despite appearing over and over again in articles about the Strangler, been linked to the same suspect.
And CP wondered: Kensington is, after all, a neighborhood ridden with both violent crime and prostitution â could it be that the sudden media spotlight was simply picking up incidents that happen more frequently than we'd like to believe?
The question might have seemed answered when a third victim was tied by DNA to the same murderer â but it wasn't: a few days ago, the Daily News acknowledged that police are still skeptical about connections between some of the different choking crimes against prostitutes.
"After latest assault, police say there could be two Kensington Stranglers," ran the headline.
Only the police didn't exactly say that. Jan Ransom reports that "Police have acknowledged that more than one person could be roaming Kensington and choking women."
As in two, yes â but also, perhaps, as in several.
Meanwhile, the news indicates that oft-seen police composite sketch, which resulted from the descriptions of women who survived the attacks, is very possibly not a depiction of the "Kensington Strangler" responsible for the three murders.
And whether it depicts the author of several other attacks is questionable, too. In early December, the Inquirer reported that "The surviving victims, meanwhile, have each described essentially the same man as their attacker."
Yet the Inquirer reported just over a week ago (emphasis added):
The first two victims, who were attacked in October, said he had a goatee and a mark on his cheek. A woman who was attacked weeks later told police there was no goatee or mark, and she said he had sideburns. Two women described him as soft-spoken; one said he had carried a white iPod and called himself Anthony.
In other words, it's possible that as many as six or seven cases are tied to the same man; but it's also possible that prostitutes are just getting choked with disturbing frequency all the time, and that the day-to-day risk they face has simply been thrust in the spotlight by the three apparently-connected killings.
makes sense....
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if he(thompson) knows so much why dosent he go help police solve the crime?
One thing that people fail to realize is that prostitutes are involved in high risk situations daily and are often assaulted. However, there is a problem with dealing with prostitutes as your primary witnesses. Any time a woman prostitute in the area is picked up for soliciting prostitution or using drugs such as crack and heroin, they can flip and say that they were just attacked by the strangler. Then, the police are caught in a serious dilemma because it be bad press to lock up a supposed "victim" of the kensington strangler. These women, although stuck in very sad in tragic situation, are not the most reliable sources and so it's difficult to say how much of these assaults are occuring. One thing that cannot be denied is that people are dying and one man has been connected to multiple murders.
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First, the video, helpfully posted on CNSNEWS.com (stands for Cybercast News Service, formerly Conservative News Service):
And now why not check out reporter Nicholas Ballasy's Wikipedia page, which appears to have been written by his mom, who is very proud of every blip he's made on the right wing radar. Sheesh. A lot of people who've done more than catch Jessica Alba saying something dumb have way shorter entries than that.
(h/t Gawker)
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