Family members of 9/11 victims just called for an investigation into allegations that FOX News owner Rupert Murdoch's newspaper News of the World sought to hack into voicemail boxes of 9/11 victims.
Murdoch has already been forced to shut down the British paper since it has been revealed that its reporters hacked into the voicemail of politicians, celebrities, British soldiers and even a missing girl who was later found murdered.
But now this scandal has expanded to the US, on reports earlier this week that a former New York City police officer claims he was offered money by News of the World journalists to retrieve phone records of 9/11 victims and their families.
This is an opportunity to hold the owner of FOX News accountable before the American people for the detestable practices he promotes as journalism. Murdoch's News Corporation is a US company that operates FOX News, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Post. And if any News Corporation outlets were spying on Americans, we deserve to know.
I just signed a petition asking Congress to investigate News Corporation. I hope you'll sign too. You can sign and learn more at the link below:
http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/investigate_news_corp/?r_by=24102-3970497-8HXBPgx&rc=paste1
Showing posts with label NY Post. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NY Post. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Sunday, July 10, 2011
NY POST = NEWS OF THE WORLD?
LONDON (AP) — With the last edition of Britain's News of the World tabloid in hand, Rupert Murdoch descended on the U.K. Sunday to face the growing phone-hacking scandal that prompted the paper's closure.
TV footage showed the News Corp. CEO being driven into the east London offices of his U.K. newspaper division, News International. The 80-year-old Murdoch was seated in the front passenger seat of a red Range Rover with a copy of the last issue of the best-selling Sunday tabloid in his hands.
Britons, too, were snapping up the last edition of the News of the World, after the 168-year-old muckraking paper was brought down in a phone-hacking scandal.
The 8,674th edition apologizes for letting the paper's readers down, but stops short of acknowledging recent allegations that its journalists paid police for information.
"We praised high standards, we demanded high standards but, as we are now only too painfully aware, for a period of a few years up to 2006 some who worked for us, or in our name, fell shamefully short of those standards," read a full-page editorial in the paper. "Quite simply, we lost our way. Phones were hacked, and for that this newspaper is truly sorry."
Allegations the paper's journalists paid police for information and hacked into the voicemails of young murder victims and the grieving families of dead soldiers prompted Murdoch's News International to shut down the tabloid.
The developments have turned up the heat on Britain's media industry amid concerns a police investigation won't stop with the News of the World, and cast new scrutiny on the cozy relationship between British politicians and the tabloid press.
Murdoch, who has long been considered a kingmaker in the British media establishment, is facing a maelstrom of criticism and outrage not just over the new allegations of impropriety at his tabloid, but also the decision to shut the paper and put 200 journalists out of work.
News International declined to comment on Murdoch's movements or plans while in the U.K.
Closing down the News of the World, which was launched Oct. 1, 1843, was seen by some as a desperate attempt by the media conglomerate to stem negative fallout and thus save its 12 billion-pound ($19 billion) deal to take over satellite broadcaster British Sky Broadcasting.
The British government has signaled that deal will be delayed because of the crisis, and the scandal has continued to unfold at breakneck pace in the media, prompting broader questions about corruption at the newspaper and media regulation in the U.K.
Soul-searching has extended to the highest levels of government, with Prime Minister David Cameron conceding politicians developed too cozy a relationship with the tabloid press. Cameron's former communications chief, Andy Coulson, is an ex-editor of the News of the World and was one of three men arrested this week as part of a police investigation into the phone-hacking and corruption allegations.
Cameron has called for a new media regulation system and pledged a public inquiry into what went wrong; the head of Murdoch's U.K. newspaper operations has hinted that more revelations are to come.
As the News of the World's final issue went to press, Assistant Police Commissioner John Yates expressed his "extreme regret" that he did not act to reopen police inquiries into phone hacking two years ago. In an interview with the Sunday Telegraph, he said "it's clear I could have done more."
On Sunday, opposition Labour Party leader Ed Miliband warned that a Murdoch takeover of BSkyB should not be allowed while the phone-hacking investigation is ongoing.
"When the public have seen the disgusting revelations that we have seen this week, the idea that this organization, which engaged in these terrible practices, should be allowed to take over BSkyB, to get that 100 percent stake, without the criminal investigation having been completed...frankly that just won't wash with the public," he told the BBC.
Buying the News of the World in 1969 gave the Australian-born Murdoch his first foothold in Britain's media. He went on to snap up several other titles, gaining almost unparalleled influence in British politics through the far-reaching power of his papers' headlines.
Murdoch has opted to remain largely silent amid the fallout, issuing one official statement describing the allegations as "deplorable and unacceptable."
Many journalists and media watchers have expressed astonishment that Rebekah Brooks, who was editor of News of the World when some of the hacking allegedly occurred, was keeping her job as head of News Corp.'s U.K. newspaper operations while the paper's employees were laid off.
Murdoch on Saturday told reporters in Sun Valley, Idaho, that Brooks had his "total" support.
The scandal exploded this week after it was reported that the News of the World had hacked the mobile phone of 13-year-old murder victim Milly Dowler in 2002 while her family and police were desperately searching for her. News of the World operatives reportedly deleted some messages from the phone's voicemail, giving the girl's parents false hope that she was still alive.
Brooks told lawmakers she had "no knowledge whatsoever" of the Milly Dowler hacking or any other case while she was editor, according to a letter published by Britain's home affairs select committee on Saturday.
GOODY GOODY, YA HAD IT COMIN TO YA!!!!!
TV footage showed the News Corp. CEO being driven into the east London offices of his U.K. newspaper division, News International. The 80-year-old Murdoch was seated in the front passenger seat of a red Range Rover with a copy of the last issue of the best-selling Sunday tabloid in his hands.
Britons, too, were snapping up the last edition of the News of the World, after the 168-year-old muckraking paper was brought down in a phone-hacking scandal.
The 8,674th edition apologizes for letting the paper's readers down, but stops short of acknowledging recent allegations that its journalists paid police for information.
"We praised high standards, we demanded high standards but, as we are now only too painfully aware, for a period of a few years up to 2006 some who worked for us, or in our name, fell shamefully short of those standards," read a full-page editorial in the paper. "Quite simply, we lost our way. Phones were hacked, and for that this newspaper is truly sorry."
Allegations the paper's journalists paid police for information and hacked into the voicemails of young murder victims and the grieving families of dead soldiers prompted Murdoch's News International to shut down the tabloid.
The developments have turned up the heat on Britain's media industry amid concerns a police investigation won't stop with the News of the World, and cast new scrutiny on the cozy relationship between British politicians and the tabloid press.
Murdoch, who has long been considered a kingmaker in the British media establishment, is facing a maelstrom of criticism and outrage not just over the new allegations of impropriety at his tabloid, but also the decision to shut the paper and put 200 journalists out of work.
News International declined to comment on Murdoch's movements or plans while in the U.K.
Closing down the News of the World, which was launched Oct. 1, 1843, was seen by some as a desperate attempt by the media conglomerate to stem negative fallout and thus save its 12 billion-pound ($19 billion) deal to take over satellite broadcaster British Sky Broadcasting.
The British government has signaled that deal will be delayed because of the crisis, and the scandal has continued to unfold at breakneck pace in the media, prompting broader questions about corruption at the newspaper and media regulation in the U.K.
Soul-searching has extended to the highest levels of government, with Prime Minister David Cameron conceding politicians developed too cozy a relationship with the tabloid press. Cameron's former communications chief, Andy Coulson, is an ex-editor of the News of the World and was one of three men arrested this week as part of a police investigation into the phone-hacking and corruption allegations.
Cameron has called for a new media regulation system and pledged a public inquiry into what went wrong; the head of Murdoch's U.K. newspaper operations has hinted that more revelations are to come.
As the News of the World's final issue went to press, Assistant Police Commissioner John Yates expressed his "extreme regret" that he did not act to reopen police inquiries into phone hacking two years ago. In an interview with the Sunday Telegraph, he said "it's clear I could have done more."
On Sunday, opposition Labour Party leader Ed Miliband warned that a Murdoch takeover of BSkyB should not be allowed while the phone-hacking investigation is ongoing.
"When the public have seen the disgusting revelations that we have seen this week, the idea that this organization, which engaged in these terrible practices, should be allowed to take over BSkyB, to get that 100 percent stake, without the criminal investigation having been completed...frankly that just won't wash with the public," he told the BBC.
Buying the News of the World in 1969 gave the Australian-born Murdoch his first foothold in Britain's media. He went on to snap up several other titles, gaining almost unparalleled influence in British politics through the far-reaching power of his papers' headlines.
Murdoch has opted to remain largely silent amid the fallout, issuing one official statement describing the allegations as "deplorable and unacceptable."
Many journalists and media watchers have expressed astonishment that Rebekah Brooks, who was editor of News of the World when some of the hacking allegedly occurred, was keeping her job as head of News Corp.'s U.K. newspaper operations while the paper's employees were laid off.
Murdoch on Saturday told reporters in Sun Valley, Idaho, that Brooks had his "total" support.
The scandal exploded this week after it was reported that the News of the World had hacked the mobile phone of 13-year-old murder victim Milly Dowler in 2002 while her family and police were desperately searching for her. News of the World operatives reportedly deleted some messages from the phone's voicemail, giving the girl's parents false hope that she was still alive.
Brooks told lawmakers she had "no knowledge whatsoever" of the Milly Dowler hacking or any other case while she was editor, according to a letter published by Britain's home affairs select committee on Saturday.
GOODY GOODY, YA HAD IT COMIN TO YA!!!!!
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Incompetent NY POST Journalists Fail To Recognize a Lead And How To Follow IT
This is the fourth in a series of at least nine posts in which I show that NY POST journalists CARL CAMPANILE, REUVEN FENTON & YOAV GONEN are incompetent journalists. Here are links to the first three plus the article about Amy Woda and other teachers that started it all.
1. Incompetent NY POST Journalists Can't Google.
2. Incompetent NY POST Journalists Hide the Identities of DOE Bureaucrats.
3. Incompetent NY POST Journalists Don't Know the Difference Between PIP and PIP-PLUS.
If journalists are to be something other than corporate propagandists, they need to know how to recognize and follow a lead. There are several leads that the Three Incompetents did not bother to follow, but one of the most important, in my opinion is the following quote from their article:
"Woda, however, disagreed with the arbitrator's ruling.
SPECIFICATION OF INCOMPETENCE #4 : NY POST journalists fail to identify and follow-up on leads that could expose wide-spread corruption in the New York City Department of Education.
1. Incompetent NY POST Journalists Can't Google.
2. Incompetent NY POST Journalists Hide the Identities of DOE Bureaucrats.
3. Incompetent NY POST Journalists Don't Know the Difference Between PIP and PIP-PLUS.
If journalists are to be something other than corporate propagandists, they need to know how to recognize and follow a lead. There are several leads that the Three Incompetents did not bother to follow, but one of the most important, in my opinion is the following quote from their article:
"Woda, however, disagreed with the arbitrator's ruling.
"It's a kangaroo court, where the outcome is always predetermined," she told The Post. "Basically, it's a way to get rid of the people who've been around for more than five years and cost the city too much."
SPECIFICATION OF INCOMPETENCE #4 : NY POST journalists fail to identify and follow-up on leads that could expose wide-spread corruption in the New York City Department of Education.
Sunday, May 1, 2011
Incompetent NY POST Journalists Hide the Identities of DOE Bureauocrats
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| Angela O'Dowd, Principal PS 62 |
Since the POST article only reveals the name of the school, I had to go to the DOE website to find the name of the principal, Angela O'Dowd.
Then I went to See Through New York, where you can find the salaries of all the people who work for the City. They have no record of her. My ex-principal's salary comes up when you type in her name, but O'Dowd's doesn't. I wonder why. Maybe she's being paid under another name.
She describes herself in the following way on her twitter feed. "I'm a New York City Principal. I grew up in Dublin. I'm passionate about education policy and social justice."
Then I stumbled on a website called the Teacher's Network . It seems that as of the year 2000-2001 this was Angela O'Dowd's contact information:
Angela O’Dowd
PS 217
1100 Newkirk Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11230
angodowd@hotmail.com
Principal:
Mary Teatum
PS 217
1100 Newkirk Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11230
angodowd@hotmail.com
Principal:
Mary Teatum
In addition, they describe her as follows:
"Angela O’Dowd was born in Ireland but attended college in New York. She has an M.S. in Education, has taught fourth grade for three years, and is currently working as a technology staff developer at the District 22 office. She has worked for two years with AUSSIE (Australia, United States, Services In Education) consultants and participated in a national teacher training certificate program for leadership in Internet and video instruction."
O'Dowd seems to have quickly moved up in the DOE bureaucracy, because by 2003 she was already principal of PS 62 according to a 2008 article in the Daily News. This article also praises O'Dowd for the improvement in test scores under her administration.
Unfortuantely, many of my questions have been left unanswered. The NY POST article states that Amy, a 14-year veteran teacher received her first U-rating from O'Dowd in 2006-2007. The article in the Daily News stresses how much the test scores had improved by 2008 (In spite of Amy?). Did Amy transfer to PS 62 from another school where she had always received satisfactory ratings or did she suddenly receive a "U" after receiving "S" ratings from O'Dowd since 2003? Maybe Amy, or someone who knows about her case can fill us in.
What is obvious, is that the NY POST journalists have this information and did not see fit to divulge it to their readers. It's important to know why a teacher who had received so many satisfactory ratings suddenly received nothing but "unsatisfactories".
Note: As of May 2, 2011 I have received the following information. Amy had 14 years with the DOE as of 2008. That means she started teaching in 1992. She was teaching at PS 62 "long before" O'Dowd was brought on board. That means that O'Dowd herself gave Amy satisfactory ratings prior to 2006. My source did not know the name of the principal who gave Amy satisfactory ratings before that.
Note: As of May 2, 2011 I have received the following information. Amy had 14 years with the DOE as of 2008. That means she started teaching in 1992. She was teaching at PS 62 "long before" O'Dowd was brought on board. That means that O'Dowd herself gave Amy satisfactory ratings prior to 2006. My source did not know the name of the principal who gave Amy satisfactory ratings before that.
SPECIFICATION OF INCOMPETENCE #2 : NY POST journalists hide the names, credentials, and work history of bureaucrats who are key players in the destruction of a teacher's careers while printing as much derogatory information as possible about the teacher. Their reporting is slanted and biased.
Saturday, April 30, 2011
Incompetent NY Post Journalists Can't Google
How many New York Post journalists does it take to perform a Google search on the exact location of a NYC public school? More than three, it would appear.
In my last post I referred to the article written about Amy Woda and other teachers by NY Post journalists Carl Campanile, Reuven Fenton, and Yoav Gonan with a photograph by Gregory P. Mango.
The article reported that Amy had been brought up on charges for nine specifications of incompetence, and I promised to come up with at least nine specifications of incompetence against the journalists.
The article states, "In the case cited above, tenured second-grade teacher Amy Woda--a 14-year veteran working at PS 62 in Forest Hills, Queens -- had received nine specifications ... blah blah blah "
PS 62 is in RICHMOND HILL, not FOREST HILLS.
What's the difference? Well, as anyone who can use Google Maps can see, FOREST HILLS is to the north of Jackie Robinson Parkway and is indicated by the little red balloon marked "A". Richmond Hill is south of Jackie Robinson Parkway, south of Forest Park and on the other side of the Long Island Railroad tracks. The purple balloon indicates the location of PS 62.
Don't get me wrong. Richmond Hill is a very nice neighborhood full of very nice people. It's just not Forest Hills where the US Open takes place. Compare house prices if you don't believe me.
To place Amy's school in Forest Hills is to mislead the reader into believing that she was serving a very different population of students and parents. New Yorkers who read this article will have a blink of a think--barely noticable to the thinker--"Well, if she can't teach in that neighborhood, she can't teach anywhere".
SPECIFICATION OF INCOMPETENCE #1 -- NY POST journalists misled their readers as to the location of PS 62 and the type of student population attending PS 62 by failing to use Google or any other search engine to verify the correct neighborhood where said school is located.
In my last post I referred to the article written about Amy Woda and other teachers by NY Post journalists Carl Campanile, Reuven Fenton, and Yoav Gonan with a photograph by Gregory P. Mango.
The article reported that Amy had been brought up on charges for nine specifications of incompetence, and I promised to come up with at least nine specifications of incompetence against the journalists.
The article states, "In the case cited above, tenured second-grade teacher Amy Woda--a 14-year veteran working at PS 62 in Forest Hills, Queens -- had received nine specifications ... blah blah blah "
PS 62 is in RICHMOND HILL, not FOREST HILLS.
What's the difference? Well, as anyone who can use Google Maps can see, FOREST HILLS is to the north of Jackie Robinson Parkway and is indicated by the little red balloon marked "A". Richmond Hill is south of Jackie Robinson Parkway, south of Forest Park and on the other side of the Long Island Railroad tracks. The purple balloon indicates the location of PS 62.
Don't get me wrong. Richmond Hill is a very nice neighborhood full of very nice people. It's just not Forest Hills where the US Open takes place. Compare house prices if you don't believe me.
To place Amy's school in Forest Hills is to mislead the reader into believing that she was serving a very different population of students and parents. New Yorkers who read this article will have a blink of a think--barely noticable to the thinker--"Well, if she can't teach in that neighborhood, she can't teach anywhere".
SPECIFICATION OF INCOMPETENCE #1 -- NY POST journalists misled their readers as to the location of PS 62 and the type of student population attending PS 62 by failing to use Google or any other search engine to verify the correct neighborhood where said school is located.
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Yellow Journalism
The New York Post has written various articles on the New York City’s Rubber Rooms and teachers assigned to them. The facts are few and far between, and mostly uncorroborated. However, the words engulfing those facts have been obviously chosen with care. I have decided to list these articles by date, and the negative words in them.
Not one to deny credit to the earnest wordsmiths who wrote these articles, I have made sure to include their names. Their mothers must be so proud.
01/31/2010 SUSAN EDELMAN and CYNTHIA R. FAGEN
creep’s; detention; haul; doing nothing; rubber room; hasn’t set foot; accused; lewd; staring; butts; filled in; absent; sexy; uncomfortable; creepy; leers; guilty; slap on the wrist; conduct unbecoming; scruffy; deemed; dangerous; fat pension; accumulated; largesse; multimillionaire; lords over; oldest; cavernous; cluttered; smells; hasn’t taken a shower in months; insults; losers; deadbeats; doles out; oversees; empire; charges; posed a risk to kids.
02/08/2010 SALLY GOLDENBERG
rubber room; slam; lashed into; dangerous teachers; sentencing; do-nothing; rubber rooms; gift of several million dollars; incompetent; former; infamous; drags its feet; refuses; allegations; misconduct; incompetence; fumed; suspended with pay; trashed; accused; sexual misconduct; angry; fed up; rotten; outraged; free-ride; hasn’t set foot; exiled; criminal allegations; sexually molested; impregnating; awaiting; disciplinary proceedings; banned; lewd; leering; exiled; overseeing; snapping pictures; rubbing up against; reversed on appeal; technicalities.
02/08/2010 ANDREA PEYSER
rubber flubbers; beats working; Franz Kafka; mental ward; recalcitrant children; spy; Patron Saint of Idle Teachers; rubber rooms; oases of waste and neglect; accused; sexual abuse; stealing; incompetence; crawl; glacial pace; costing; tens of millions; deficit; disgrace; sat on his rump; caught leering at backsides; lewd comments; wrist slap; bizarre sight; suffocating room; how to beat the rap; groundswell of outrage; shutter them; torture; acrimony; nail biting; hand twisting; rubber room; disgrace; siphoning; flexes its muscle; insanity; fire the bums.
02/12/2010 SUSAN EDELMAN, KATHIANNE BONIELLO and CYNTHIA R. FAGEN
exiled; knocking up; three strikes; allegedly; impregnated and married; sexually molested; rubber room; beating; criminal; disciplinary; charges; rubber room; accused; misconduct; get rid of; hands are tied; fired; terminate; disciplinary proceedings; exiled; duds; banned from classroom; lewd comments; leering; overseeing; worse record; charged; abusing; porn pictures; suggestive poses; pants down; rubbing against; sued; expunged.
02/14/2010 YOAV GONEN
Rubber room; perv; bounce; creep; probe; denizen; rubber rooms; allegedly; ogled; not content; leer; followed; probe; rear ends; butt; rubber-roomer; sex; fraud; charges; allegedly; impregnated; doing nothing; outrage; rubber room; shut down; ax; misbehaving.
02/15/2010 SUSAN EDELMAN and CYNTHIA R. FAGEN
Sleazy 6; rubber room; on the hook; rubber-room; dangerous; benched; alleged; sexual misconduct; limbo; misconduct; adjudicated; impossible to fire; exposed; misdeeds; chancellor’s discretion; oversaw; lewdness; impregnated; molesting; criminal conviction; technicality; dishonor roll; shoving; pants; hugged; nice ass; missed opportunity; infatuated; exiled; rubber room; terminate; dirty half-dozen; arrest; alleged; sexual abuse; arrested; allegedly; sexually assaulting; accusations; wrongdoing; idle; rubber rooms; chancellor’s discretion; cost; millions; wrist slap; lewd comments; overseeing; suspension; accused; fondling; learning disabled; not credible; lewd comments; accused; sexually assaulting a child; alleged victim; recanted; impregnated and married; sexually molested; rubber room.
Susan, Cynthia, Sally, Andrea, Kathianne, and Yoav (if these are your real names): It won’t be easy, but let’s see if we can sweep aside the yellow journalism and find some facts.
1. FACT: Many of the facts that you cite are part of New York Department of Education private personnel files that are not available to anyone outside the DOE. For example: The exact number of years that a teacher had been teaching; the number of sick days he had accumulated; the exact salary; the exact wording of the charges.
2. FACT: You give private information from the personnel files of six different teachers who worked at different schools and in different districts all over the city.
3. FACT: There were no rubber rooms before Chancellor Klein established them. Teachers who were awaiting the outcome of investigations were put behind desks at their district offices.
4. FACT: When Chancellor Klein was appointed by Mayor Bloomberg, he stated that he wanted to be able to hire and fire all NYC teachers at will.
5. FACT: NYC teachers are civil servants and like policeman, fire fighters and other state and city workers they cannot be fired without just cause.
6. FACT: If the six teachers you wrote about are still on Department of Education payroll, it is because an independent arbitrator ruled that there was no just cause to terminate them i.e. not enough FACTS.
I’ll stop at six FACTS because this seems to be the magic number for your little articles:
660 teachers in the rubber room (actually more than 700)
6 sleazy teachers (according to you).
6 sleazy reporters (according to me—and any journalism teacher alive).
This is not a FACT, but a DEDUCTION. I think your facts were provided to you by the DOE and all you did was cut and paste them into your articles. You disguised the absence of hard fact with gossip and incendiary words.
Real journalism is about finding the facts that insiders don’t want you to know, and/or finding out why they are providing you with insider information.
Tell us something that Bloomberg and Klein don’t want New Yorkers to know, and then maybe you can call yourself journalists.
Not one to deny credit to the earnest wordsmiths who wrote these articles, I have made sure to include their names. Their mothers must be so proud.
01/31/2010 SUSAN EDELMAN and CYNTHIA R. FAGEN
creep’s; detention; haul; doing nothing; rubber room; hasn’t set foot; accused; lewd; staring; butts; filled in; absent; sexy; uncomfortable; creepy; leers; guilty; slap on the wrist; conduct unbecoming; scruffy; deemed; dangerous; fat pension; accumulated; largesse; multimillionaire; lords over; oldest; cavernous; cluttered; smells; hasn’t taken a shower in months; insults; losers; deadbeats; doles out; oversees; empire; charges; posed a risk to kids.
02/08/2010 SALLY GOLDENBERG
rubber room; slam; lashed into; dangerous teachers; sentencing; do-nothing; rubber rooms; gift of several million dollars; incompetent; former; infamous; drags its feet; refuses; allegations; misconduct; incompetence; fumed; suspended with pay; trashed; accused; sexual misconduct; angry; fed up; rotten; outraged; free-ride; hasn’t set foot; exiled; criminal allegations; sexually molested; impregnating; awaiting; disciplinary proceedings; banned; lewd; leering; exiled; overseeing; snapping pictures; rubbing up against; reversed on appeal; technicalities.
02/08/2010 ANDREA PEYSER
rubber flubbers; beats working; Franz Kafka; mental ward; recalcitrant children; spy; Patron Saint of Idle Teachers; rubber rooms; oases of waste and neglect; accused; sexual abuse; stealing; incompetence; crawl; glacial pace; costing; tens of millions; deficit; disgrace; sat on his rump; caught leering at backsides; lewd comments; wrist slap; bizarre sight; suffocating room; how to beat the rap; groundswell of outrage; shutter them; torture; acrimony; nail biting; hand twisting; rubber room; disgrace; siphoning; flexes its muscle; insanity; fire the bums.
02/12/2010 SUSAN EDELMAN, KATHIANNE BONIELLO and CYNTHIA R. FAGEN
exiled; knocking up; three strikes; allegedly; impregnated and married; sexually molested; rubber room; beating; criminal; disciplinary; charges; rubber room; accused; misconduct; get rid of; hands are tied; fired; terminate; disciplinary proceedings; exiled; duds; banned from classroom; lewd comments; leering; overseeing; worse record; charged; abusing; porn pictures; suggestive poses; pants down; rubbing against; sued; expunged.
02/14/2010 YOAV GONEN
Rubber room; perv; bounce; creep; probe; denizen; rubber rooms; allegedly; ogled; not content; leer; followed; probe; rear ends; butt; rubber-roomer; sex; fraud; charges; allegedly; impregnated; doing nothing; outrage; rubber room; shut down; ax; misbehaving.
02/15/2010 SUSAN EDELMAN and CYNTHIA R. FAGEN
Sleazy 6; rubber room; on the hook; rubber-room; dangerous; benched; alleged; sexual misconduct; limbo; misconduct; adjudicated; impossible to fire; exposed; misdeeds; chancellor’s discretion; oversaw; lewdness; impregnated; molesting; criminal conviction; technicality; dishonor roll; shoving; pants; hugged; nice ass; missed opportunity; infatuated; exiled; rubber room; terminate; dirty half-dozen; arrest; alleged; sexual abuse; arrested; allegedly; sexually assaulting; accusations; wrongdoing; idle; rubber rooms; chancellor’s discretion; cost; millions; wrist slap; lewd comments; overseeing; suspension; accused; fondling; learning disabled; not credible; lewd comments; accused; sexually assaulting a child; alleged victim; recanted; impregnated and married; sexually molested; rubber room.
Susan, Cynthia, Sally, Andrea, Kathianne, and Yoav (if these are your real names): It won’t be easy, but let’s see if we can sweep aside the yellow journalism and find some facts.
1. FACT: Many of the facts that you cite are part of New York Department of Education private personnel files that are not available to anyone outside the DOE. For example: The exact number of years that a teacher had been teaching; the number of sick days he had accumulated; the exact salary; the exact wording of the charges.
2. FACT: You give private information from the personnel files of six different teachers who worked at different schools and in different districts all over the city.
3. FACT: There were no rubber rooms before Chancellor Klein established them. Teachers who were awaiting the outcome of investigations were put behind desks at their district offices.
4. FACT: When Chancellor Klein was appointed by Mayor Bloomberg, he stated that he wanted to be able to hire and fire all NYC teachers at will.
5. FACT: NYC teachers are civil servants and like policeman, fire fighters and other state and city workers they cannot be fired without just cause.
6. FACT: If the six teachers you wrote about are still on Department of Education payroll, it is because an independent arbitrator ruled that there was no just cause to terminate them i.e. not enough FACTS.
I’ll stop at six FACTS because this seems to be the magic number for your little articles:
660 teachers in the rubber room (actually more than 700)
6 sleazy teachers (according to you).
6 sleazy reporters (according to me—and any journalism teacher alive).
This is not a FACT, but a DEDUCTION. I think your facts were provided to you by the DOE and all you did was cut and paste them into your articles. You disguised the absence of hard fact with gossip and incendiary words.
Real journalism is about finding the facts that insiders don’t want you to know, and/or finding out why they are providing you with insider information.
Tell us something that Bloomberg and Klein don’t want New Yorkers to know, and then maybe you can call yourself journalists.
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