Times' take on Catskills is beyond tired

Times Herald-Record Middletown, NY ^ | 12/27/2009 | Barry Lewis

[Impala64ssa]

For those outside the Mid-Hudson/Catskills region of NY, Barry Lewis is hardly a "rightwing nut-job" but apparently, even he realizes how far the NY Crimes have sunk. Even an simple relatively apolitical article like this they can't get right. Not to mention recycling all the tired old cliches, just like they do aginst conservatism. Maybe it's time, to paraphrase 0bama's words, put this Old Grey Lady on painkillers and let her continue to whither away and disappear.

[kabar]

I delivered the Times Herald Record when it first started in Middletown.

[Steely Tom]

The Concord has been demolished, IIRC.

[Roccus]

Just 3 Mi.

to the

Red Apple Rest!

[Impala64ssa]

Yes the Concord was knocked down about 2yrs. ago. In fact a week or so ago before they began demolition, Sen. Schmucky Schumer in his never ending quest to be in front of every news camera, held a press conference while hovering around the Concord in a helicopter promising bigger and better things for the region. Well, unless there’s invisible bulldozers breaking ground, the Concord site is still a huge empty lot.

[Impala64ssa]

Sadly, the Red Apple Rest closed down several yrs. ago. The building still stands, and it’s uncertain what will become of it while it continues to deteriorate.

[truthfreedom]

Excellent indie rock fests at Kutshers every September.

http://www.atpfestival.com/events/atpnewyork2009.php

[Steely Tom]

You know the main thing I remember from the movie Dirty Dancing ? It's when Dr. Houseman (Jennifer Grey's father) raises his voice and demands to know "who's responsible for this girl?" while he's giving first aid to the Penny Johnson character, dying of a botched abortion.

Can you imagine this question being asked today?

[kcvl]

Let’s name the ‘reporter’...

2007 - Jennifer Mascia is a news assistant at The New York Times and attends the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University.

Her father was a racketeer, cocaine addict, drug dealer & murderer.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/19/nyregion/19metjournal.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/01/fashion/01love.html

[kcvl]

Jennifermascia

http://74.125.93.132/search?q=cache:Sq4DdFhR5BIJ:twitter.com/Jennifermascia+JENNIFER+MASCIA&cd=6&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

at cosmetics convention at Javits Center. Teeth so white they glow in the dark. :)
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Cash for Clunkers goes bye-bye. Even successful government programs get canned.
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[hennie pennie]

I am trying to remember where I read an article, or where I heard an interesting discussion that there simply is NO money for ANY investigative journalism, that almost all of what we identify as investigative journalism is done by hobbyist bloggers, not newspapers or newsmagazines who cannot afford it.

[kcvl]

Got a criminal in the family? Write about it, become a NYT’s feature and get a book deal.

******

Newsroom Assistant Lands Sunday Feature, Book Deal

By Ron Hogan on Aug 28, 2007 12:43 PM

Earlier this year, NY Times news assistant Jennifer Mascia was browsing through the online archives of the paper’s “Modern Love” column when she realized she had her own story to tell. “It just poured out of me,” she says of the article detailing the truth behind her father’s criminal record, including secrets that were only revealed on her mother’s deathbed. Shortly afterwards, as literary agents and movie producers began asking if she wanted to do more with the story, a colleague at the Times referred her to Alice Martell, who was immediately excited by the prospect of expanding the article into a book. (”But the most surprising reaction to the story came from inside the Times newsroom,” Mascia said. “Suddenly, everybody knew who I was, even the masthead names.”)

http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/behind_the_deal/newsroom_assistant_lands_sunday_feature_book_deal_65863.asp

[Steely Tom]

I am trying to remember where I read an article, or where I heard an interesting discussion that there simply is NO money for ANY investigative journalism, that almost all of what we identify as investigative journalism is done by hobbyist bloggers, not newspapers or newsmagazines who cannot afford it.

Hey, follow the money, right?

[CT]

Mid-Hudson Valley, as in West Point Hudson?

[proxy_user]

“2007 - Jennifer Mascia is a news assistant at The New York Times and attends the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University.”

Is this an unpaid internship?

You get what you pay for....

[hennie pennie]

I’m thinking it was probably a panel discussion, but I just can’t recall who was on the panel, now which channel it was broadcast on.

[Ukiapah Heep]

The Times lost all of it's talent when Jason Blair quit.

[blackminorca]

Unemployment is a huge problem in the Catskills.

There used to be huge resorts and factories in Sullivan and Ulster - now the prisons are the biggest employers.

[SE Mom]

Reading this article got me started...went looking for old pics of the Catskills. Here’s a site with a lot of interesting ones taken at abandoned resorts- including the Concord.

http://www.uer.ca/~bratchny/catskills/

[sig226]

That’s almost amazing - the THR taking the Times to task. Between the two of them, they could teach a graduate degree in bad journalism.