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Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 10:42 PM
Subject: Fwd: [UC] Press release or Wendell statement?
I may not have been clear. It's not about other people being personally
involved, its about one person being personally involved, who happens to be a
reporter - Tony. The others were not writing newspaper articles. Tony is
totally involved in the UCD issue, at least in the list world. His interest
and bias were not disclosed in the newspaper.
I'm generally a UCD supporter, I admit it. But c'mon, the article is
hard to classify as neutral.
Paul
I don't want to frighten you, but we appear to agree about something and I
respected your admission of a mistake. So, I even came up with a new name to
call you.
Paul,
Point of fact: Mr. West introduced himself as the representative of the
Friends of Clark Park at the much-discussed Penn meeting. At no time at the
public meeting, did he identify himself as a reporter from the Public Record.
The FOCP leadership/UCD relationship represents, perhaps, the biggest secret
planning taking place at this time between a civic association and UCD. There
is an enormous redesign of Clark Park planned with city money and other money.
The orchestra alone is an enormously expensive deal under way. I saw somewhere
that just the fee alone for these "park concert" marketing schemes approaches
$100,000. Then advertising, set-up,etc. are added.
Having a hatchet job orchestrated, then published as news, by the FOCP leader
would be the most inappropriate unethical type of conflict of interest we could
have here in the village. West appears to his readers that he is a reporter for
the Public Record. West told the assembly at the Penn meeting that he was there
as representative of the very UCD involved, Friends of Clark Park.
Paul, like the other quotes in the article this quote is false. It never
happened:
"John Fenton and UCD did what they do," she said. " I work with Penn and UCD.
But somebody decided to lie on him. I'm very disappointed."
Blackwell spoke at length during the meeting. This characterization that she
whimpered and made this, "lie on him" error are completely false. The few
quotes chosen or made-up serve to characterize her presentation, and it is
completely misleading.
She used statements like: "I'm furious;" "How dare the UCD;" "This is wrong
wrong wrong." She at no time said, ".lie on him. I'm very disappointed."
So not only has this reporter not identified himself appropriately at either
end of his handiwork, has an undisclosed tremendous conflict of interest; but
he also makes up quotes that together constitute a clear hatchet job aimed at
Blackwell.
I hope that information clears up the misidentification. There was absolutely
no reporter from The Public Record identified at the Bryan meeting. The only
media organization with an identified representative was the UC Review. The
Public Record article was reported and written by the Friends of Clark Park
representative who was present, Tony West.
This identification issue should be recorded in the minutes of the Bryan
meeting. Also, we were all asked to sign a sheet identifying ourselves and any
affiliation.
I requested action against this FOCP representative by the FOCP Board
concerning misinformation in Mr. West's listserv posts. The Public Record
hatchet job simply adds to the record of conduct.
Sincerely,
Glenn
PS: Siano is West's assistant at the FOCP. His job is to back-up his leader
and insult FOCP critics, not engage in reasonable discussions with you. Just
wanted my opinion disclosed.
-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Siano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [email protected]
Sent: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 2:51 pm
Subject: Re: Fwd: [UC] Press release or Wendell statement?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I think the article, to the contrary, suggests that Tony obtained > the
quote about John not cooperating "later" which would explain why > people at
the meeting didn't hear it said. The prior reference sounds > like it was taken
from the statement he read at the meeting.
>
> Bigger question, for me, is the inappropriateness of a reporter > being
involved personally in a story he's covering. I thought that was > contrary to
journalist's ethics. (Likewise, I thought it odd if the UC > Review was going
to get involved in running community meetings on > UCD.) I'll leave it to the
constitutional scholars on the list to > wonder about the intersection of free
press and free speech rights in > the First Amendment.
There's nothing inappropriate about it, actually-- so long as the reporter's
interest and biases are known and the reporting is accurate. Then there's the
matter of how "personally involved" one is. Blackwell, Fenton, Lewis Wendell,
and some employees of UCD are, verifiably, personally involved. Tony's role as
a board member of the FoCP puts him on the outer periphery of "involved," which
isn't much more "involved" than any other resident of UCD. And it doesn't seem
to have influenced his reporting in any substantive way;
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