Welcome Visitors


About Me:

I'm the Queen of the Click..Brooklynite taking over the world from her computer. MCSE, Martha Stewart Wanna Be.























December 14, 2018

Helen Klein – Did She Get Demoted or Was It Just a Scheme? How the Home Reporter Lost Readers….

 

 

 

While politicians like to play politics, some local newspapers and their editor(s) participated in our election in a pretty horrible way.

 

 

The Brooklyn Reporter announced that Chuck Otey was (reinstated) as the Executive Editor of Home Reporter paper and Paula Katinas would be the executive editor of The Spectator.

Kadia Goba, a journalist for Bklyner confirmed this new:

After Chuck  Otey became the executive editor OVER OR INSTEAD OF HELEN KLEIN,  Otey endorsed his friend, Marty Golden. Although politicians loved this move…..

Residents weren’t fooled by the “hello cronyism” endorsement.

  

The Home Reporter paper had a history of not endorsing a candidate, but the new owners and Chuck Otey didn’t care about the paper’s history. The history of the paper meant nothing to them.  Thankfully, Ridgites came out to vote out the 16-year incumbent. It’s strange to us that Chuck Otey would disregard the newpapers’ pioneers….as if what they did meant nothing because he wanted to use the paper to help his friend.  It’s a trend of the times that history doesn’t mean much to people anymore.

 

Here’s the sad part….either Helen Klein was demoted from being the head editor of the paper at the paper’s discretion  OR Helen Klein fell over and let Bay Ridge get a snowjob of an endorsement.

It’s sad either way….for our community and for women in journalism.

If the owner of the Home Reporter made Helen Klein step down from being the editor of both papers, it means the owner doesn’t respect her and her work. Many residents talked about Otey stepping on Klein because she was a woman. People thought it was strange that Klein would report to Katinas. But Katinas confirmed that she was the executive editor over Klein when she thanks Kassar:

 

 

But if  the truth is the other way around, Helen Klein doesn’t respect this community and she allowed a silly endorsement to be printed on the cover of the paper to try to influence a neighborhood’s election. Didn’t Klein care about the history of the paper not endorsing a candidate?  While the streets in Bay Ridge were filled with a blue spirit and optimism for Gournades and “22 Ought to Be Blue,” the paper posted the contrary.

 

How many readers did that move cost the Home Reporter? Residents laughed when they saw, “Marty Golden: Actions Speak Louder than Words.”  #Fail

 

 

When Andrew Gourndes won the Senate seat, the Home Reporter would not give him the cover.  Gounardes and the people ousted a 16-year incumbent and the paper couldn’t be respectful and wish him well? Nope….the paper ran Marty Golden on their cover. As Ridgites cheered, the paper reflected Chuck Otey’s sadness.  A tiny violin played for Otey.

 

 

 

 

Whoever chose that picture on the cover, doesn’t have much sense because why would they have frozen Marty Golden defeat and his sons’ disappointment in time like that?

 

 

Further, Klein is still listed as the editor of both The Spectator and the Home Reporter – neither Charles Otey or Paula Katinas are listed as executive editors in any bylines. It’s Helen Klein who has the say on what goes on and into the paper.

 

 

The Spectator made an endorsement days later for Gounardes on the cover. Our local papers aren’t reflective of the ideals of this community if they are printing contrary information in two papers by the same publisher with Helen Klein as the editor of both.

Paula Katinas confirmed the new title when she thanked people for congratulating her.

Was Helen Klein part of the scheme to push a politician onto a community when clearly the community had enough of him? I have written to Helen Klein several times about articles that have appeared in the Brooklyn Reporter, but she doesn’t respond. Helen Klein, like all of the elected politicians of this area, have my full name and my e-mail address too.

While I don’t think Helen Klein reads my blog, I know a few people on her staff do.   So….Helen Klein or Chuck Otey – whoever is the editor – please report the news in the Brooklyn Reporter and tell reporters to stop with these type of articles. No one needs to know what Nicole Malliotakis ate for breakfast in the diner (yes, that’s what Paula Katinas told us about this week). Why would the executive editor of a newspaper think this was news when the endorsement of Eric Ulrich in Staten Island was news for everyone else in NYC? It showed that Nicole Malliotakis continues to have only a small role in the Republican Party. While a few local reporters may play up Malliotakis’ press releases, no one is fooled by it.

As an editor, don’t you think residents should be able to pick up your paper and know what is going on in the community rather than having to search for it online?

Incidentally, Chuck Otey reads my blog and has written to me twice to let me know I am not a journalist. I have politely responded TWICE – the second time publicly,  so Otey can’t claim I didn’t respond. 

 

 

 

Clearly, Chuck Otey doesn’t realize that newspapers no longer control the community and the Internet allows residents to speak the truth (as far as they know) for their neighbors. I have never had any politician write to me and tell me I didn’t print the truth (and you know they would have).

 

 

 

Hugs,
marlene

Topics: Uncategorized | No Comments »

Comments