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September 16, 2019

Jaime DeJesus, Why Doesn’t Bay Ridge Deserve Better?

 

 

 

Jaime DeJesus became the digital editor of the Brooklyn Reporter. Lately, we have seen some one-sided political articles, but this week there was a doozy.  I checked what was different about the paper and noticed DeJesus replaced Megan McGoldrick as the digital editor. (McGoldrick joined the Brooklyn Eagle). I contacted DeJesus about the writing and  this was his response:

 

 

Editorial@ANYPAPER.com is the junk mailbox – it doesn’t even have a person’s name. DeJesus didn’t want to speak to me, so he tried to push me off on another person. But I persisted because this guy doesn’t seem to understand that words matter!  He then wrote:

 

 

 

 

At the same time last year, I wrote to the digital editor of the Brooklyn Reporter. She was responsive and we had a conversation online –  see it here

 I have written two e-mails to Helen Klein  – she doesn’t reply. I used my real name and e-mail – not queenoftheclick (but I  mentioned I was a blogger – it’s a small community and she may have come across this site for something else). 

I have also written publicly to Helen Klein and she has never responded see here,  here  and  here.  Klein has a Twitter account, so she could have written to me at any time.

 

 

 

 

DeJesus wrote he was going to “inform” her. LOL, she already knows. Here’s my e-mail from last August:

 

 

 

 

 

Most editors welcome readers views. One editor respond to me on his daughter’s wedding day. Why? Because news matters and readers matter to that man.  Maybe DeJesus doesn’t understand that he has a responsibility to Brooklyn now that he is an editor.

This Summer, a child died with no explanation. Here’s Jaime DeJesus’ article. The child’s name was Besa Lufo,  DeJesus referred to her as Lufo Besa – he was the only reporter to do this. DeJesus wrote that that she lived in Dyker Heights. The girl lived on 64th Street between 11th and 12th Avenue – that’s Borough Park. DeJesus reported that the police found the child dead in her bed. That isn’t possible because the mother carried the child downstairs to the neighbor and the neighbor performed CPR on her. (SourceDeJesus never updated or corrected his article – not even with the child’s correct name. It just didn’t matter to him. But to our community, a child dying is big news and that was just disrespectful to the child’s family.    

This isn’t the first time I have contacted DeJesus about his writing. Strangely, he started to write  “filler crime articles.”  I read one article and then realized the crime happened over a month from the time it was printed in the paper. Another time, he wrote about a crime that happened ten months prior to his reporting and there was no current information on the crime.  I started to collect collected DeJesus’ late stories here.

Awhile back, I thought there had to be a reason DeJesus was so disconnected! A quick search on social media showed DeJesus and his family live in Staten Island. (Acris confirms it) Why would anyone in Staten Island care about Brooklyn’s local news? It’s irrelevant to them. 

But in Brooklyn, news is important. This week, the digital version of the paper featured an article about John Quaglione written by John Alexander. Quaglione is just a district leader – the paper has never featured district leaders before, why would they now?  The article started to discuss Catholicism and the Conservative Party because Quaglione works for DeSales Media. Alexander has written favorable articles towards Republican/Conservative party candidates because he participates in that group. Yet, Alexander is now writing about my religion. 

The Catholic Church has taken a lot hits over the last year. Why would  John Alexander link the church with the Conservative Party in Brooklyn?  The Catholic Church isn’t involved with things like this or this.  The paper ran the story on the cover, as if nothing else in the neighborhood was newsworthy this week. 

In the article, Quaglione stated: “There are Catholics who have differences of opinion on different issues, and they’re accepted and welcomed to the church.” This is absolutely not true. The Pope has been clear on this (See here or  here). Random views are not accepted. A priest in he adjacent neighborhood has even said that someone is not a Catholic if they have different views.

 

Quaglione stated: “But generally speaking, people who are worshipers and regular churchgoers tend to be more on the conservative values side.”  If there are statistics to back that up, provide them. Democrats are in the pews at my church every week and they wouldn’t consider themselves conservatives.

Quaglione said,  “I think that the message here is that no other institution can say they’ve been around for over 2,000 years and have millions of people throughout the world following them and believing.”     

The Vatican has said that there are over a billion Catholics in the world.

Quaglione said: “What I would like to encourage is the vocation of the priesthood, attendance in our Catholic schools and for people to come back to church because there is a place for you, not just during the bad times when people need to call upon God, but there’s a place for them on Saturday or Sunday or at our daily masses in different churches, just to come and be a part of it and make it an aspect of their lives.” 

Why didn’t Alexander ask how Quaglione how he would encourage attendance in Catholic school, when his child attends public school? 

For all three men here, I don’t understand why this is going on in our community. Most journalist would want to bring truth and clarity to the community where they live.  When I see these fathers doing this, I don’t understand because my father never would have gone out of his way to do this to anyone.  

 

 

Hugs,
marlene

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