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Thursday, June 03, 2004

After the Jayson Blair scandal at the New York Times, an independent public editor was appointed to address questions of ethics and standards in reporting. Public editor Daniel Okrent has recently criticized coverage of the Tony Award nominees and pre-war reporting on Iraq's weapons programs.

Suozzi Goes to Albany

Tom Suozzi Nassau County Executive discusses his clean Albany initiative and his exclusion from the Democratic Convention and why he is attending regardless

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City Mouse, Albany Mouse

Ben Smith city hall reporter at the New York Observer discusses local and state politics
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Anne Michaud Senior Reporter, Government and Politics, Crain's New York discusses city and state politics
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Jennifer Steinhauer reporter, New York Times ...

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Tenet Evicted

Michael Hirsh Senior Editor at Newsweek's Washington Bureau At War With Ourselves: Why America Is Squandering Its Chance to Build a Better World (Oxford University Press, 2004)on CIA head George Tenet's resignation

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The Report on the Reporting

Daniel Okrent Public Editor of the New York Times and author, Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center (Viking Press, 2003)on the NYT pre-war Iraq coverage

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Debate and Switch

George Farah Executive Director of Open Debates, a non-profit devoted to presidential debate reform and author, No Debate: How the Republican and Democratic Parties Secretly Control the Presidential Debates (7 Stories Press, April, 2004) says the presidential debates unfairly exclude third party candidates

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House Cleaning

Thomas Suozzi can be considered a political maverick. He is the youngest person to be elected as Nassau County’s Executive, the first democrat to be elected to the position in 30 years and only the second in the history of the county. His constituents elected him to clean up ...

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