Helen Klein and One-Sided Journalism
The masthead of the Brooklyn Reporter Paper shows Helen Klein as the editor.
The Reporter ran a one-sided article from Chuck Otey. The article is not labeled as a paid advertisement, so the Editor – Helen Klein had to review it before the paper went to press. Afterall, you wouldn’t put your name as the editor unless you oversaw the paper.
Otey’s one-sided article took aim at Fight Back Bay Ridge (FBBR) because Fight Back Bay Ridge told the truth about Marty Golden not funding public schools in the area. Otey is a friend of Senator Golden so he often defends the senator in the paper. Yet, the article wasn’t syndicated online as an individual article (although the paper does publish a full digital version).
When one-sided journalism is published in a local paper, it hurts the community. People believe what is written because they believe THE EDITOR – HELEN KLEIN has some due diligence to the public. While Chuck Otey took it upon himself to ruin Fight Back Bay Ridge’s reputation in the nabe, he didn’t even allow one of their members to share their views in the article. Otey doesn’t realize that this is hurting our neighborhood (or doesn’t care). Otey doesn’t mention that Senator Golden’s wife apologized to FBBR. We are unsure why Chuck Otey’s article was not published as an article for the online version. Is he hiding? Both FBBR and I have written him tweets on Twitter.
This Summer, I saw one writer for the paper deliberately distort the news and his writing actually contradicted another writer for the paper. I wrote to Helen Klein – with my real name and e-mail address. Digital editor, Meghan McGoldrick encouraged me to write to Klein, yet Klein failed to reply. When I looked at my e-mail to make sure I had used the correct e-mail address (I did), I saw I had sent several e-mails to Helen Klein since 2014 – all went unanswered.
When an editor of a paper doesn’t respond to an e-mail about incorrect information, you know that people aren’t the reason that paper runs. How do I know? One day I wrote to an editor who took the time to respond to me on his daughter’s wedding day.
When will Helen Klein print the truth about Senator Golden and his pay-to-play bills? NEVER is probably the answer because our local papers didn’t even share the information that Senator Golden introduced a bill which gave huge tax breaks to a developer in Manhattan for this building:
Does this building look like it needs tax breaks? If you for even a small though think it did – Why didn’t the Senator of that area in Manhattan take care of the tax breaks?
These are the some pay-to-play bills Senator Golden introduced this year for the tobacco industry.
Who in Bay Ridge benefits from Marty Golden’s pay-to-play bills for the tobacco company?
Finally, the paper wrote to a resident on 9/19 and said that Chuck Otey was from the old publication. If someone was writing and publishing Nazi propaganda in the paper, would Helen let it print as it or edit/label/delete the column? Who knows as Helen has Helen doesn’t want any interaction with residents who have a view other than hers.
Hugs,
marlene
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