NEWSDAY CALLS TOWN BOARD “POLITE,” DEVELOPERS “ILL-PREPARED.” HOLY CRAP.
Wow. A mind-blowing take from Newsday on Monday’s hearing. From writer Sandra Peddie:
Although most of the questioning was polite, the developers – New York Islanders owner Charles Wang and developer Scott Rechler – appeared frustrated and at times ill-prepared for the questions about traffic, height of buildings and whether the developers would sell off parts of the project. Town board members repeatedly asked for specific commitments, but the developers declined to make them.
A few things that are kind of odd about Ms. Peddie’s view. The Lighthouse developers may have shook their heads a few times and articulated some frustration, but “ill-prepared”? I think part of their frustration was because many of the questions they were asked were answered a long time ago. Others are addressed thoroughly in the lengthy Environmental Impact Statement they poured man-hours and countless dollars into.
Town council member Dorothy Goosby is the only leader on the panel who said she read it. On the other hand, board member James Darcy candidly told attendees after the hearing that the EIS was “7,000 pages” and “too long.”
The other surprising part is that Ms. Peddie was one of three Newsday reporters who spoke with Charles Wang during the dinner break of the hearing. I was there the entire time. I heard a lot of leading questions, like, “Wasn’t it frustrating for you when they said…”? I even heard some compliments thrown Wang’s way. I didn’t hear any of the Newsday reporters tell Wang that he seemed ill-prepared. Too bad. He might have been able to address the accusation.
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69 Responses to NEWSDAY CALLS TOWN BOARD “POLITE,” DEVELOPERS “ILL-PREPARED.” HOLY CRAP.
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I read that and I wondered to myself how 2 accounts of the hearing could be so different.
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Strummer's Army says:
Newsday sucks! Newsday has begun to pour on the Ranger coverage and minimize the Isles coverage. Newsday in an effort to help the Rangers out now that the Islanders have the biggest star in John Tavares out of the three metro teams cuts back on Isles coverage, eliminates an outstanding reporter in Logan (FOR NO REASON) and replaces him (no offense Katie) with a cub reporter.
Apparently Newsday and the TOH think they are better off without the Isles. This is pretty darn strange on behalf of both but especially Newsday who has admitted in the past that by far the most traffic they got on their website was from the Islander fans.
Look if Newsday folded it’s doors and we were left with our coverage down to Point Blank I wouldn’t miss it much.
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a REAL hockey fan says:
___ ^^ Newsday as a newspaper/new service is a DISGRACE AND JOKE to journalism and reporting, how do u people and why do you people buy or support this ragtag .02 outfit??
___ Besides this coverage, Newsday is BIASED AND AGENDA DRIVEN and lies/distorts to the left on most social isues – (i dont want this 2 be a political debate) but this paper is NOT, I r-e-p-e-a-t NOT a newspaper!! — It cheerleads and holds ‘pom poms’ for the issues it believes and wants! (Including politics) its disturbing and kinda scary that they would lie/twist/distort for their agenda!!!
___ SCREW U NEWSDAY!! NEVER A PENNY AGAIN!!
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mtrico says:
Newsday slides another few steps down the credibility ladder. That newspaper is quickly becoming a joke. It’s now owned by Cablevision, so why should we expect anything more?
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WHAT??????????? They are officially out of their flippin minds!!!!!!! The town board made some of the most ridiculous ill-prepared statements I have ever heard from them. They asked redundant questions that even I know were answered in the DGEIS. They fixated on minutae and wasted everyones time asking for piles of stats that, if they were doing their jobs in the first place, they could have had an intern prepare in advance! They dismissed years of hard work by traffic experts because it “didnt sound right” to them, even though they are as much of traffic experts as I am. Santino was rude obstinate and disrespectful on MANY occasions (and he is MY rep!) The board made statements as foolish as asking why ramps dont go in “this area” and had to be TOLD- by outside traffic intelligence nontheless- that the area in question was the Hempstead flippin Plains!!!!! They also treated supporters curtly and went out of their way to be overly courteous to anyone they hoped was against the project. Santino demanded to know how the LH was going to make traffic BETTER and solve the PRE-EXISTING problems in the area, even though he knows fully well that solving pre-existing problems is the rightful burden of the state and that the LH has no authority to do what he was asking of them. The responsibility of the LH is to ensure that they do not add to traffic problems and hopefully make them better. Santino KNOWS THAT.
For Newsday to have the NERVE to completely warp everything that I heard and saw with my own eyes and ears today proves that they are ABSOLUTELY WORTHLESS as any kind of a reliable objective source of information. I am disgusted, and I am going to tell them so.
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Andre says:
Newsday is an utter disgrace! Can someone please tell me what entity owned by Cablevision has showed any short of professionalism.
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JJ says:
Number 3 –
I agree, Katie Strang leaves a lot to be desired after Logan’s reporting over the last few years.
I’m all for giving young journalists opportunities (I’m in grad school for journalism myself), but it’s disappointing to see that Newsday chose to give the Islanders beat to someone with such little experience.
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Steve says:
One shouldn’t believe a word from Newsday; they work for the Rangers.
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Jim Clark says: Charles Dolan avoids hiring intelligent people like a vampire avoids holy water.
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BD says:
Amazing how Peddle seems to have the exact key words that ToH gave me. Seems someone “peddled” it to her and she used it. Very concerning.
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beatlebailey says:
I will be cancelling my newsday subscription. Since I only bought it for the isles coverage and that sucks. I will just come here for my isles fix. F Dolan
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Dan says:
I was wondering what happened to the usual ToH gopher that files these “reports” but then I noticed that she was listed as one of the contributors at the end of the “article” and so (dis)order was then restored. Murray’s established quite a collection of utterly clueless, laughably shameless and otherwise useless errand girls to shill for her and serve as her mouthpiece. Truly pathetic, though always entertaining. One of the countless indicators of Newsday’s gradual descent from reputable news source to glorified cat box liner.
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gary says:
newsday is 5th grade reading
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KO21 says:
Its ironic to say the Wang and the developers were illprepared. The ToH didn’t even read the reports because it was too long. Sounds to me like it was the opposite way around. Start calling the town, fellas, don’t let these jerks get away without a fight!
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UIF says:
Well, Newsday doesn’t need Islanders’ fans readership. They can continue to lure in readers with their amazing user-friendly website and incredibly insightful tweets from Jim Baumbach. Truly, a model of success.
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Bob Bassen says:
Newsday’s purchase by Dolan was just one of the free-for-alls of Media Consolidation that occured under the Previous Federal Administration. Sickening. Anyone remember that XM and Sirius satellite radio was allowed to combine because *….it would be better for consumers…* ?We The People own the airways and *OUR* Government auctioned off the rights and THEN allowed the only TWO companies to combine into ONE. You can’t even make it up. Allowing Dolan to buy Newsday and even Murdoch to gobble-up the Wall Street Journal was just more of the same. It’s not really a Republican or Democrat issue because BS occurs on both sides. Now for us following the Lighthouse issue we can see clearly how spin/slant/ignorance can be frosted on a cake.
No pressure, CB, but Dolan buying Newsday is a HUGE reason that I want Point Blank to continue.
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isles72 says:
so the LH group could have submitted a stack of blank paper 6 feet high with the title ”enviroment study” on the front page and the TOH officials wouldnt know ?
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therain93 -- terriers fan says:
Newsday has been a rag for a long time, this is nothing new. With all due respect to Strang, I’m not visiting her blog/tweets/reports simply because she is working for newsday. We vote with our wallets, and in the case of the internet, our page views too….
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Blizzard says: …..Could it be that the Dolans would like to see the Lighthouse fail? I also read an article that questioned wether anyone would care if the Islanders moved. This is Long Islands newspaper. The thing I dont get is Newsday leans decidedly left, but seems to be in TOH GOP pockets…….Hmmmmmmmm.
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Numbers65 in OHIO says:
Nice media disinformation Newsday!
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Dan from Westchester says:
It’s not a secret why print media is in such a state of disarray. Educated people can see right through “agenda – driven” political shilling which runs rampant.
Nice to see Newsday now turning it’s back on it’s hometeam! Hate to say it, but since Cablevision now owns them – no surprise they would become Ranger – friendly. Oh well.
No problems coming exclusively to PB to get my hockey stories from a real hockey guy qualified to speak about it.
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dose says:
in the early 1970′s the dolan/cablevision empire was born on LI through a myriad of business practices and methods rife with sleaze. some of the same people – politicians, ETC., ETC., – and their remnants (you know who you are) – that helped the process along for various reasons, while gorging themselves on the frenzy created by that gigantic money grab, are among the forces against this project now. their reasons are not hard to figure out. and the stance taken by dolan’s newsday as noted in CB’s latest piece on fanhouse also should be no surprise to anyone.
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Mick Vukota says:
Pathetic …..
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chebaturkin says:
Should I be reading into the fact that a different newsday writer covered the hearing, rather than Ms.Laikin who has been covering the lighthouse project for months.
What happpen to Eden Laikin??? She seemed very fair in her assessment of the situation. This Sandra Peddie is clueless!!!
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bcarey says:
Newsday employs Wallace Matthews full time. Argument over. We win.
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one more point, i don’t know ms. peddie’s work and my point about newsday is not specific to her. but to think that the dolan’s do not excercise in any way their influence through the “newspaper” they own would be beyond naive.
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Spartiarti - RVC says:
i stopped getting newsday a very long time ago.
Yesterday was a utter disaster. These policticans are morons. I would not been able to keep my cool talking to them. Wang owned them.
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Tom , 27 says:
Well Cablevision didn’t want the Jets new Stadium….And doesn’t the TOH realize how many stores will go under if the Isles leave? I go out to dinner there when I go to games, I guess they don’t want our out of town taxes, I wonder how long Kate will last when she and the TOH Board have to drastically raise taxes when they leave?
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geduffer says:
Their usual disclaimer says it all– “The Rangers, who are owned by Cablevision, which also owns Newsday…”
Basically it means to forget getting honest, unbiased coverage here. I’d cancel my subscription if I had one.
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IsleofNJ says:
Question to the locals out there…. Has there been any Kristen McElroy sightings out there in regards to the Lighthouse issue or is she just sitting back and waiting for the current politicians against the Lighthouse to self-destruct?
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rb says:
Jim Baumbach in today’s Newsday:
“You know what this half-empty arena looked like? Any other Islanders home game.”
Honestly, this guy is a rodent. The Islanders averaged over 13,000 last year in a season that was as dismal as any the team endured since 1972-73. There were no “embarrassment” crowds of 3,000 like there used to be in Bloomington before the North Stars moved.
In Baumbach’s world, you just make up the truth so you can get off a snarky line and provoke. Pathetic.
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StevieL says:
When is enough, enough?? This is starting to look like an orchestrated effort to drive the Isles off LI !!Newsday is outrageous in their biased ignorant coverage of yesterdays hearing and the blatant absolute lack of coverage of the “hometown” team! Dolan is putting his spin on everything relating to the Isles and the Lighthouse project. Obviously he has no interest in a succesfull team in Uniondale that pull fans away from the Rags and garners more news and publicity from his MSG operation. Honestly , everyone here needs to bombard the “letters to the Editor” section at Newsday (although I am sure you will not be printed) I also would like to see the competitors of Newsday, the Daily News or the Post, to take an investigative approach to uncover what exactly is going on at Newsday!! This is just unbelievable!!
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big dog says:
No offense to Katie but I would rather wait till CB posts to get my isles fix.
That paper is a joke.WAKE UP WANG CB is the only person credible enough (and dam good) who knows how to reach the die-hards.
I’ll be honest if they would actually take care of cb and make this blog/info site the “official” islander news/spot we wouldnt need Newsday or its bs agenda.
Im so pissed off right now..
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“an investigative approach to uncover what exactly is going on at Newsday!! ”
moreso among opposition to the LH.
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JayK says:
A couple of things:
–Look, I didn’t like the Sandra Peddie story either. As I sat at the hearing, I tried to think in my head how I’d write it, what would be the lead point, etc. (And tried to put my biases aside while doing it). I certainly didn’t come up with what she wrote; her take is not one that I saw as an audience member for most of the day. But it’s a bit conspiratoral to think that Jim Dolan is directing this coverage. The most clear-headed take on this is that if the Islanders leave, it isn’t going to hurt the Rangers one bit (they sell out every game, and would now have more air travel to get to games..no more bus rides out the LIE), and it would hurt Cablevision, because a service that people will pay money to see — the Islanders — has now disappeared. No, they wouldn’t have to pay the TV rights anymore, but the whole thing in cable is delivering content that people want, and if you lose that, it isn’t good. Why do you think they keep spending so much money on News12? Because it’s a service a lot of people like, and can’t get elsewhere.
2) I called up the Democrats last week and asked the same question about Kristin McElroy: where was she? I got “Well, you know, she’s got three kids, she works…” So while she certainly was never going to beat Kate Murray, it looks like she’s not even going to challenge her. Really sad.
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Hey CB or NIck! What happens now? Are we waiting for a board vote? Is the next step some sort of press release from TOH? or is it just radio silence till Oct. 3??
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New York Islander Fan Central says:
Chris, how about toning down Isles free agents and call the moving vans headlines unless AOL wrote the other one? Don’t we have enough misleading information already given you know they have a binding lease until 2015 whether Wang sells or not?
Cablevision has a great deal to gain by the Islanders relocating, they save hundreds of of millions on the cable contract, they get to formally expand to Nassau County with the Wolfpack ala Hartford at the Coliseum and put Knick and Ranger preseason games in the building and save tons of money in covering the Islanders at all.
Huge incentive in getting the Islanders out for James Dolan.
Newsday could only afford to send Katie Strang to Saskatoon who but have Jim Baumbach in KC taking his shots at a team that on paper recorded seven sellouts and seven other crowds over 15,000 in 30th place while Ranger fan Mark Herrmann wondering if it’s worth it if the Islanders stay?
City papers need the Knicks coverage and advertising, that’s why hockey even gets the limited space it does.
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This story is fairly routine save for that second graph. At first I thought it was going to read as a reporter with an agenda, but as I read it through it looked like your basic facts vs. facts piece, so, in other words, fairly objective.
However, that second graph shocked me because if you have followed this thing from the beginning, as most of us have had no choice but to do, you’d know if Wang is nothing else he’s never “ill prepared.” And like Chris said, every question ever asked or could be thought of to ask has been answered by Wang and Rechler.
It almost seems like the board is trying to get the developers riled up purposely as to get a reaction and paint them in a negative light as “ill prepared.”
Bottom line as far as Ms. Peddie’s reporting goes, as someone in the business I can tell you she does a good job at reporting the “facts,” she did sum up the meeting. However, she didn’t do her homework because anyone who’s been following this thing over the last few years will tell you that Wang has basically covered every base more times than can be counted.
Don’t blame the guy for being frustrated. Think about it, it appears 99 percent of the board didn’t read the 7,000-page report because it’s “too long.”
I’m sorry, but on something this important you take the time … regardless of the length of the document.
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rb, Jim Baumbachs hockey ‘coverage’ is IMHO unreadable. And right now I am SO angry at Newsday, part of me is in a way glad Logan isnt covering us anymore. Without his Isles articles, it is far easier to see how pathetic Newsdays overall Isles coverage really is. He alone lended credibility to coverge that is misleading, uninformed, and worthless at best.
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I sent a letter to the editor a while back and the editor called me to confirm it was indeed my letter. I looked for it the next couple days and it never appeared but I did find it on the “Lighthouse” website as a testimonial which I found as really odd. Whats up with that?
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MT says:
#25 Lakin wrote a piece about how Wang and his board was frustrated he wasn’t allowed to finish his statements among other things, and how the TOH didn’t seem to be aware of anything
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BTW- I talked to Sandra Peddie this AM regarding this garbage. We had a polite conversation regarding the inaccuracies, omissions, and misinformation it contains. She said that this article was a “joint effort” and that the person I should talk to about it is actually Eden Laiken. She also made it clear that anything Lighthouse-related I should talk to Eden Laiken. How about that?
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pablo says:
Well, nothing is simple even for Charles Wang. LoL!
They will meet in the middle, and how they make this ALL about the Islanders seems just Dishonest to me.
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jcapisles (39): Not asking to be rude but were you there all day? I was- the entire mtg- and I am telling you honestly that it was NOT facts vs facts nor was it failry objective. This article is wrought with inaccuracies, biased halftruths, and glaring omissions… and Laiken had Peddie “help out” with it so tht she could have it in the paper without putting her own name on it. The supposed author herself washes her hands of it- what does that tell you???
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El Exigente says:
Look for a much scaled down project to come of this.
A new/refurb building for the Isles with all the amenities offered to fans at Yankee Stadium, CitiField and the Rock – sprawling concoures at each level with access to resturants, food courts, sports bar, and team stores.New office space/campus to keep existing tech companies in Nassau. Imagine Canon’s new North American HQ there and not in Melville.
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TimQ says:
#38 – It’s not all about the Islanders. It’s all about making money. God forbid someone actually attempts to make money off a franchise that has been draining them for years. He owns the Islanders, and it is his option to bundle this any way he sees fit. In the business world you rarely deal with the level of incompetence that was demonstrated yesterday by the ToH board, so I wouldn’t blame him for a second if he picked up his tent and moved it elsewhere. I would however lose interest in pouring my heart and soul into any other team. The Islanders are the only truly ‘local’ franchise left. They are defined by the region and the region gains some of it’s identity from them.
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Marc from Troy says:
Regardless of how any of you currently feel about Newsday or the apparent hack job in the above-referenced article, the fact remains that, well, you can’t unring the bell. It’s already out there.
Whether you think they’ll be published or not, as many of you as possible who were there yesterday need to bombard them with letters to the editor questioning how they could have come up with the observations/conclusions which were published. Hell, just cut/paste what ChrisTMC (6) wrote above.
No matter how many people may still read that rag, the effort to correct them still needs to be made. Not only by letters to the editor from the public (you guys), but by an editorial at some point from the LH developers, too.
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Pete M says:
Why did Sandra Peddie feel the need to characterize the TOH board as ‘polite’ at all? Shouldn’t that be what we expect from our elected officials? Shouldn’t it be a given? Is that news? Seems to me the board and their shills at Newsday are concerned about the image they put forth yesterday and are trying to mitigate any damage caused by it.
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El Exigente (46): They are not allowed to scale things down in the way that some people are constantly suggesting. When the LH group got their approval from Nassau county way back when, it was for and because of the particular things that are now there in the plan. They can play with the # of floors in bldgs, where residential etc is located, etc but they cannot simply take out or put in anything large scale- if they did they would be in violation of what the county itself asked for and approved! Remember, there were many other project proposals on the table back then- plenty of which were more scaled down than what is being proposed now- and the county rejected them. And also remember that they are the ones that own the property (that which is not already owned by the LH group) NOT the TOH!
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” …to think that Jim Dolan is directing this coverage.”
it’s not a matter of ‘directing this coverage.’ he doesn’t have to personally do anything for intent to manifest itself. for example, just like in any business, people down below sometimes do things they think will please the chief. and did you notice (if you were in the NY area then) how fast the new york post changed as soon as rupert murdoch bought it years ago?
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Isles Fan in Ulster County says:
Typical TOH and typical Newsday. If any fan wonders why the Isles cannot get positive coverage, this is why. Thank you for being there, CB. Thank you for reporting the truth.
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cgs878 says:
I buy Newsday just for the coupon savings that I clip out of the papers every week. The reporting has gone downhill since about 2005, and I can find spelling and/or grammar mistakes in just about every paper. Oh well, maybe it’s time to cancel my subscription.
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LIHockey says:
“The questioning was polite.” Why is this the exact opposite tone I was getting from numerous LH reports. PS> Questioning the comittee on whether a left turn is more dangerous then a right does not make the LHD squad “ill-prepared”.
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Dose — #51 — if Jim Dolan is directing negative coverage toward the project, then why did Newsday have an extensive editorial the other day — and the editorial page is the one most directly run by the owner and publisher — ripping Murray and the board? Not exactly the sign of an entity working to have this project overturned.
My main fear is that supporters are going to just sink into some conspiracy-laden dead zone, thinking that the fix is in because of a troika of Murray/Santino/D’Amato/Dolan/you name it, and avoid the real work of getting on ALL Republicans in Nassau County and saying that your vote up and down the line on Election Day, no matter where you are, will be governed by what the TOH does with the LHP.
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i believe we must do what we have to in order to get eden laiken exposed and fired.
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Tom says:
Willets Point.
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at the moment, i am writing a scathing critique to eden laikin about her lack of journalistic integrity and i also plan to CC what i have written to as many of her colleagues and peers as possible. i figure that the more of us who do such a thing, the better it is. we must prove that the old style tactics of lying in the news to mislead the masses is obsolete in the 21st century. what she did is unacceptable and she owes sandra peddle, the readers of newsday, and all interested parties a sincere apology. if we do this properly and get this account (and all past accounts) of her shoddy ‘journalism’ in the public eye across the blogosphere and beyond, perhaps we can prevent future instances of her completely unprofessional conduct. there is plenty we can say and do based on yesterday’s article AND past articles, most notably the one from the day of joe mondello’s shoutfest. i am sorry to use this space as a soapbox, but anyone interested in also doing this, please email me at batteryjackson@gmail.com. there is more that we can do here which we are not doing. BUT we must remain honest.
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Does anyone really read Newsday’s sports columnists with regularity? I generally avoid them b/c there just never seems to be any substance behind their work. It’s just all playground insults designed to get people mad. They had good writers in the past, but most are gone now. I’ll say Mark Herrmann is the exception…he writes some good hockey pieces. But other than his stuff, when was the last time anyone actually learned something interesting, or felt like they just took in a unique perspective, from any of those guys? The only one I can recall was a story on Roy Jones Jr. after he lost his last fight. I think Wallace Matthews may have written it.
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ME says:
This morning I had my dog use Newsday as his toilet. That’s pretty much all I have to add to this topic.
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Ethan K says:
I’m getting so sick of all this. I think the team is better off in Brooklyn. At this point, I’ve lost all hope that this project is gonna happen. Let’s just hope that when October 3rd comes, a good offer comes from Brooklyn. That’s where my support is at this point in time, as much as I hate to say it…
I live 15 minutes from the Coliseum now, but I just don’t see it happening.
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Point Blank says:
And Newsday even censors its advertising. It won’t take ads from verizon, because they have a better Tv and Internet service than their owner, Cablevision. Gime me half a break!
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hyedray says:
After yesterday—I cant see any TOH board members supporting the project—at all. In fact—what I see is a 4-1 vote against the project. Murray will be the lone “yea” vote. She will do it so she can say she voted yes when she knows all along it would fail anyway.
I don’t think they will have certainty or a vote of any kind by Oct. 3. Murray & the clowns of Hempstead will wait until after the election and do everything to blame Wang for the entire mess.
Its sad—but I dont think Hempstead residents will vote the GOP out.
To me—the best solution: The Isles move to either Suffolk or Queens and leave NVMC ROTTING—as testimony to Kate Murray and the Nassau and Hempstead GOP.
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How is a 7000 page report “ill-prepared”?? And if they had just supplied a 200 page precis, then they’d have to deal with crap about leaving details vague and not addressing certain questions. Just taking what the defense gives ‘em, right Kate Murray?
As for the Newsday article, the technical term for it is “drive-by.” Think I learned that back in my journo classes, though of course most of my professors assumed we’d be the ones behind the wheel. Then we could plausibly say, hey, we never pulled the trigger, we had NO IDEA those guys in the back had guns. I mean, how could I, I cut my headlights! It was too dark to see!
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SIR WILLIAM says:
CHRIS TMC, The County can approve all the plans it wants. If the TOH doesn’t pass the zoning then NOTHING HAPPENS, What part of this don’t people here get?
Wang, Rechler and Murray need to get down to business and find out what is acceptable to all parties concerned.
Once they hash that out, the County will rubber stamp any changes tht are made.
It has often been said that the NY State Goverment was run by “three men in a room.” It’s time for “two men and a (rather large) woman” to be locked in a room and not allowed out until they reach a deal everyone can live with.
Once the election is over and Murray is firmly in place then that is the time for serious talks to begin. Wang should extend his “deadline” until then.
I think Charles in charge got a real dose of reality by the showing in KC last night. The KC people can spin it anyway they want, but the truth is that KC is a minor league city that will never support a hockey team. In fact, outside of Jim Basille, NHL franchises are not on anyones “most wanted” list. Wang would be lucky to give the team away in this economy. He’s not kidding anybody with his threats and Kate Murray has called his bluff.
All the money Wang has lost is nothing more than an investment in obtaining this
land for developement. The TOH realizes this and is not at all worried about him moving the team. The only way he can recoup his investment is to see this project through. If not he takes a bath in red ink. Murray and the TOH know this, too.So, let stop the posturing and get down to what needs to be done. Enough with the threats, rudeness and silly games. It’s time to get to work and make it happen for the good of all Long Islanders…….Sir William
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that a member of the town board didn’t read the document , and made the same admission, is astonishing.
the retort the feds and state DOT know more then the local board, was probably the first, best answer.
telling the local board member that the resulting $25 million in tax revenue to her school district would be the single greatest benefit to her district might have been the way to go.
how big are the buldings? thats an easy question you can use to make your opponent look ill prepared.
unless this was a political dog and pony show to make the board look like they were asking tough questions, i dont see the zoning thing happening.
newsday has become in many respects, cotten candy journalism.
wang ill-prepared? that statement alone indicates litle knowledge of the subject your reporting on.
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CJCB says:
correct me if i’m wrong but i dont see the housing prices as being affordable. I dont think the rich need more help affording to stay here its the middle and lower class that do AND these prices are still way way to high. Its starting to sound like all business for Wong and not much of a give back other than the Islanders. They have to lower their demands.
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This sounds like buiness? Of course- that is because it IS business. Buisness is what Long Island has let slip away and business is what LI needs. A growing tax base will help everyone.
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I don’t know If I said it already but …This blog rocks! I gotta say, that I read a lot of blogs on a daily basis and for the most part, people lack substance but, I just wanted to make a quick comment to say I’m glad I found your blog. Thanks,
A definite great read….
Newsday’s conduct throughout this whole process has been disgraceful. For anyone who was there to say that the Town Board was POLITE, and the Lighthouse, which got frustrated after roughly 4 straight hours of pounding on minutia and ridiculous questions like “What happens if people run red traffic lights?” was being rude….well, that’s someone with an agenda.
I am absolutely disgusted by what I saw today. Somebody needs to stand up and be an adult here.