NY Post has more on AAR scandal

[PW]

From Thursday's NY Post (excerpt):

August 4, 2005 -- Air America's foot-dragging on repaying $875,000 borrowed from a beleaguered Boys & Girls Club in The Bronx has nothing to do with a probe of the club's controversial loans, city investigators said yesterday.

Officials at the ultra-liberal radio network have repeatedly said Air America intends to repay the money, but claimed they put those plans on hold because of the city probe.

"We're waiting for directions from the investigators on how to proceed," Air America spokeswoman Jamie Horn said this week.

But the Department of Investigation said there is nothing to prevent the radio network from repaying its debt immediately.

"DOI has done nothing and given no instruction preventing payment of money owed to Gloria Wise [Boys & Girls Club]. Any statements to the contrary are inaccurate," said DOI spokesman Keith Schwam.

Full story: http://www.nypost.com/seven/08042005/news/regionalnews/26551.htm


From the NY Times: nothing

 

[pdxmitch]

Re: NY Post has more on Evan Cohen scandal

> From Thursday's NY Post (excerpt):
>
> August 4, 2005 -- Air America's foot-dragging on repaying
> $875,000 borrowed from a beleaguered Boys & Girls Club in
> The Bronx has nothing to do with a probe of the club's
> controversial loans, city investigators said yesterday.
>
> Officials at the ultra-liberal radio network have repeatedly
> said Air America intends to repay the money, but claimed
> they put those plans on hold because of the city probe.
>
> "We're waiting for directions from the investigators on how
> to proceed," Air America spokeswoman Jamie Horn said this
> week.
>
> But the Department of Investigation said there is nothing to
> prevent the radio network from repaying its debt
> immediately.
>
> "DOI has done nothing and given no instruction preventing
> payment of money owed to Gloria Wise [Boys & Girls Club].
> Any statements to the contrary are inaccurate," said DOI
> spokesman Keith Schwam.
>
> Full story:
http> ://www.nypost.com/seven/08042005/news/regionalnews/26551.htm
>
>
>
> From the NY Times: nothing

Both AAR and GW say AAR's begun paying them on a two-year plan. The NY Post calling that "foot-dragging" is misleading editorializing. AAR saying it was waiting for instructions from DOI sounds like it asked DOI what to do and was waiting for response. DOI saying they haven't told AAR not to pay doesn't contradict that at all. AAR's begun paying anyway.

I do declare, I am shocked and scandalized.

 

[autopaint-1]

> From Thursday's NY Post (excerpt):
>
> August 4, 2005 -- Air America's foot-dragging on repaying
> $875,000 borrowed from a beleaguered Boys & Girls Club in
> The Bronx has nothing to do with a probe of the club's
> controversial loans, city investigators said yesterday.
>
> Officials at the ultra-liberal radio network have repeatedly
> said Air America intends to repay the money, but claimed
> they put those plans on hold because of the city probe.
>
> "We're waiting for directions from the investigators on how
> to proceed," Air America spokeswoman Jamie Horn said this
> week.
>
> But the Department of Investigation said there is nothing to
> prevent the radio network from repaying its debt
> immediately.
>
> "DOI has done nothing and given no instruction preventing
> payment of money owed to Gloria Wise [Boys & Girls Club].
> Any statements to the contrary are inaccurate," said DOI
> spokesman Keith Schwam.
>
> Full story:
http> ://www.nypost.com/seven/08042005/news/regionalnews/26551.htm
>
>
>
> From the NY Times: nothing
>
OK if the NY Times is the paper of record, the NY Post is the paper 9 out of 10 bird owners use to line their cages with. Hey PW, do you live in the NY metro area and know what the Post is? For sports, great; for honest news coverage, the National Inquirer has as much journalistic credability. Air America, ULTRA LIBERAL? What would they call Pacifica? Another lesson for you, know who you are quoting from. Using Quotes from the Post when it comes to issues concerning Air America, The NY Daily News or any non Rupert Murdoch owned company is almost equal to using National Vanguard books to discuss 20th century Judism.

 

[Scribbler]

Wall Street Journal Joins Left-Wing Conspiracy!

> From the NY Times: nothing

First conservative: But I bet there's plenty about this in the credible papers like the Wall Street Journal, right?

Second conservative: No, there's been no mention in the Journal, unless you count "US Air-America West Merger Gets Support From Loan Panel", and "US Air-America West Talks Intensify."

First conservative: Should we tell PW?

Second conservative: No! we'd break his heart!

 

[dampier]

Absolute proof of my earlier contention - when you can't win making stuff up or stretching the news to fit an agenda, fold your cards in one thread and... start a whole new one. Too bad that isn't a credibility reset.

Today's "news" report is just as credible as the others from the right wing press. That sound? It's the axe grinding.

> August 4, 2005 -- Air America's foot-dragging on repaying
> $875,000 borrowed from a beleaguered Boys & Girls Club in
> The Bronx has nothing to do with a probe of the club's
> controversial loans, city investigators said yesterday.

If this isn't on the editorial page or within a column, this paper has no business attributing anything as "foot-dragging." Even better is the lead which gets the crayons out to try and draw a line to Air America, and then says it has nothing to do with the investigation! Split personality journalism.

> Officials at the ultra-liberal radio network have repeatedly
> said Air America intends to repay the money, but claimed
> they put those plans on hold because of the city probe.

Buh, bye credibility. "Ultra-liberal?" Is that like Mega Downy or Powerball Electrosol?

Further, the only consistent thing here is Air America. They are repaying the money and this rag claims they put those plans on hold? I guess they missed that escrow account deposit.

> "We're waiting for directions from the investigators on how
> to proceed," Air America spokeswoman Jamie Horn said this
> week.

Here is a NY Post Tapdance (tm). The implication the Post is making is that they put plans on hold because of the city probe. But that wasn't at all what Horn was commenting on. Horn was discussing how the network should proceed with respect to the DOI investigation into Cohen and the club, and how it could possibly pay this money back. Big difference.

> But the Department of Investigation said there is nothing to
> prevent the radio network from repaying its debt
> immediately.
>
> "DOI has done nothing and given no instruction preventing
> payment of money owed to Gloria Wise [Boys & Girls Club].
> Any statements to the contrary are inaccurate," said DOI
> spokesman Keith Schwam.

Slanted reporting. The DOI did not independently come to say this. They were responding to the loaded question from the Post about whether or not Air America Radio was prevented from paying the loan back because of the investigation. Of course, nobody at Air America ever asked that question, only the Post reporter.

Since there have been -no- statements to the contrary coming from Air America, it is a completely empty and pointless endeavor to claim that statements to the contrary are inaccurate. There haven't been any.

This is no different that asking the White House whether anything would prevent Dick Cheney from drinking the blood of innocent virgins to stay alive.

"DOI has done nothing and given no instructions preventing Cheney from drinking the blood of innocent virgins. Any statements to the contrary are inaccurate."