Thank God you have such a small audience. The damage you can do is
unbelievable, and so conflicting with the headlines you like to fish
for.
KB
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "justifiedright"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Et tu, Maureen? Et tu? :-)
>
> When the Press started reporting about Cutis Sliwa and the Guardian
> Angels coming to AP, every article was devoid of his trying this
> before and failing here in the 1980's.
>
> The fact that he did is certainly news. If not convinced of that,
> imagine if Joe Carabetta showed up here with redevelopment plans,
and
> no mention was made of the 1980's. Clearly his past failure would
be
> news and should be thoroughly vetted before we let him try again,
> right?
>
> The same should be true for Sliwa because it's more important -
we're
> talking violent crime and putting citizens in the way of it.
Acutely
> more important than what building goes where.
>
> None of the Press reports even mentioned Sliwa's past failure here.
>
> I didn't just write a column about it, I gave it to the AP Press
> first. I thought the issue too important for a small weekly like
TCN.
> I contacted the reporters, the editors, etc. by phone and email. I
> wanted them to ask questions of Sliwa about whether he was really
> committed to making it work this time, or if he was just "headline
> fishing" like last time. If that's too pointed, get into why he
> failed at least, and show both sides.
>
> If you are new here and don't know, the folks that run the Press
don't
> like me. It was my job when I used to write for TCN to keep track
of
> Asbury Park Press mistakes and bias and write about it.
>
> That they don't like me isn't surmise on my part. The Press has
made
> no bones about it and have told me to my face they won't cover any
> news that gets referred by me. If I were to cure cancer, they
> wouldn't cover it. Think what you will about what that says for
> journalism and ethics on their part.
>
> After I gave them the Sliwa material, they started one article with
a
> quote from him acknowledging he was here in the 1980's, but at the
> same time he blamed the City of Asbury Park for it not working then.
>
> So the Press felt no need to print the issue, just Sliwa's one
> sentence dismissal of the issue.
>
> In today's Press, in Maureen's column, Sliwa says this:
>
> "Contrary to Sliwa's visit to Asbury Park in the '80s, when he says
he
> was run out on "an NJ rail," this time the city fathers "rolled out
> the red carpet."
>
> Horse shit. Run out on a rail? In the past I've called Sliwa a
> failure in AP. Now I'm calling him a liar.
>
> Think about it. How could the City fathers have "run him out?"
You
> don't need a license for what he does. You don't need permission.
> You don't need brick and mortar to work from. You just do it.
>
> The fact that he did set up here and the GA's were roaming the
streets
> here in the 1980's (for about a month) shows he didn't get "run
out."
> He's lying about that. He just didn't stay last time. After he
> grabbed the headlines, he didn't care if it worked or not. The
kids
> that signed up got their asses kicked and Sliwa was gone.
>
> There needs to be a public discussion on whether the Guardian Angel
> format can work in a small suburban environment like Asbury Park,
> particularly since it failed once. It's more important now,
because
> the thugs don't just beat people up in Asbury Park like in the
1980's;
> now they shoot you dead.
>
> The Press refuses to let the other side of the argument get any
print
> at all. Just a bunch of Messiah-hero-savior tripe about Sliwa.
>
> What do I suggest Maureen Nevin do about it? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!!
I
> know what the Press does if you dare disagree with them. Don Stine
> knows what the Press does if you disagree with them. If I recall
> correctly, Maureen knows it too.
>
> She just got this gig with the Press. No way she should buck the
> system now. Just go with the flow, Mo.
>
> Although I can't spread the word like the Press, I'll do my best.
>
> Unlike everyone at the Asbury Park Press who has reported or opined
on
> this issue, I was an eyewitness to the events in Asbury Park in the
> 1980's. I know the true facts, and I know that Sliwa is lying.
>
> I'm not saying I'd be against the GA in AP if Sliwa does it right.
My
> only wish is for the Press to engage in a conversation about the
> issue. I even offered to them that I would stay out of it and say
> nothing if they would just engage the issue (considering my
> uncontrollable compulsion to opine, I thought it a pretty big offer
on
> my part :-)). No dice from them. So am I supposed to be silent
now?
>
> If some well meaning Asbury Park teenager in a GA uniform gets
gunned
> down thinking he can break up a drug bust - I'll hold the Press
> accountable. If they engage the discussion first, I won't.
>
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