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Friday, August 14, 2009

08/14/09 The Mount Vernon Briefing

Comprehensive News Feed for Mount Vernon, NY.
  • Police take gun from Hudson Valley political candidate
    posted on August 15, 2009 05:47:06 am
    ... and confiscated a gun from his waistband after they found him passed out from alcohol. A police report says Mount Vernon City Council candidate Samuel Rivers was found on the steps outside a New Rochelle restaurant over the weekend. No charges were ...
  • Jackson had long history with estate executor
    posted on August 15, 2009 05:38:22 am
    ... a hobby he parlayed into one of the world's most formidable collections. Branca spent his early years in Mount Vernon, N.Y., but later moved to Los Angeles with his mother, actress Barbara Werle (who, coincidentally, had a role in the Presley movie ...
  • Mount Vernon council candidate handcuffed over gun in waistband
    posted on August 15, 2009 01:32:16 am
    Mount Vernon City Council candidate Samuel Rivers was handcuffed and had his gun confiscated Sunday morning in New Rochelle after, police said, they found him passed out drunk with the weapon poking from his waistband.
  • Mount Vernon man shot by Yonkers officer during drug bust
    posted on August 15, 2009 01:29:20 am
    A 21-year-old Mount Vernon man was shot by a Yonkers narcotics officer during a drug raid in an upper-class residential section of the city last night.
  • Bernice (Samuels) Willis
    posted on August 14, 2009 01:35:31 pm
    Bernice Willis departed this life on Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2009, in Rochester, N.Y. She was a longtime resident of Aiken and had attended Aiken County Public Schools.
  • Parole and probation sweep nets 19 arrests
    posted on August 14, 2009 01:10:00 am
    A task force of city, county and state law enforcement agencies swept through Mount Vernon in the past two days visiting people on parole and probation to make sure they were not committing crimes.
  • DATABASE: Taxable sales gains continue in Rockland, fall by double-digits in Westchester, Putnam
    posted on August 13, 2009 03:00:00 pm
    ... collections and estimated taxable sales in Westchester, Rockland and Putnam counties, as well as the cities of Mount Vernon, New Rochelle, White Plains and Yonkers: Sales taxes and taxable sales in the Lower Hudson Valley since 1990
  • Bronx man sentenced to 22 years in Mt. Vernon slaying
    posted on August 13, 2009 03:00:00 pm
    A Westchester County judge sentenced a Bronx man to a 22-year prison term yesterday for killing a Mount Vernon man who had a beef with his friend.
  • Yonkers man shot in arm
    posted on August 13, 2009 03:00:00 pm
    ... the victim was uncooperative with their investigation. No one was arrested. On July 15, a 16-year-old from Mount Vernon was shot on Cliff Street in what police think was a gang-related shooting. The victim was walking with two Yonkers friends, one ...
  • Police Reports
    posted on August 13, 2009 11:26:03 pm
    A Zotos International employee told police his wallet was stolen from his office between 1:19 p.m. and 3:48 p.m. on Aug.
  • Man sentenced in Westchester dispute killing
    posted on August 09, 2009 03:00:00 pm
    WHITE PLAINS A Bronx man, who shot and killed a Mount Vernon resident while his friend was trying to mediate a dispute between the victim and a neighbor, was sentenced in Westchester County Court on Wednesday to 22 years in state prison.
  • Ben Gordon Week: UCONN | Men's Basketball
    posted on August 13, 2009 01:18:31 am
    ... Friday evening. Part of the week's festivities include a "playground build" with non-profit KaBOOM! at the Mount Vernon Family Center YMCA tonight. The Ben Gordon New Life Foundation is behind these charitable efforts, dedicated to improving life ...
  • Mt. Vernon police nab 3 Bronx men in scrap-metal theft
    posted on August 12, 2009 03:00:00 pm
    MOUNT VERNON - Officers caught three Bronx men red-handed as they were stealing scrap metal from a contracting business, police said yesterday.
  • Mount Vernon inspector general seeks to seal records
    posted on August 12, 2009 03:00:00 pm
    MOUNT VERNON - The city's inspector general wants to change the City Charter to block public and press access to records and files collected and produced by his office.
  • Desegregation deal raises hopes, concerns
    posted on August 12, 2009 03:00:00 pm
    ... Westchester is a one-bedroom apartment, she said, and for now, they're living with her boyfriend's parents in Mount Vernon. Map: 18 Westchester communities could be targeted for affordable housing Her dream: 'To actually own my own ...
  • R. David Kreitler, 99; ran adult-education program
    posted on August 12, 2009 02:01:00 pm
    ... of service by presenting him with a watercolor of the school's Creutzburg Center in Radnor. Born in Mount Vernon, N.Y., Mr. Kreitler grew up in Scranton and attended Scranton Central High School before graduating from Kent (Conn.) School. He earned ...
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While local "mainstream" media outlets and blogs often self-righteously proclaimed that only the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, is published, the critical reader knows that local news reports in "mainstream" media have three primary purposes: (a) to entice their readers, (b) to be "politically correct" so as not to offend the powers that be, and (c) to lure advertisers by showing the number of docile readers the local publication draws.

Beyond these less than honorable motivations listed above, local "mainstream" reporters, editors and especially publishers are also prone to inject their own personal prejudices and biases, either consciously or unconsciously.

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Many times the vocabulary employed by local "mainstream" journalists and editors is often pejorative and very value laden.

Actually, this is an argument in and of itself that there is a bias.It is up to the critical reader to point this out by means of blog posts and letters to the local "mainstream" newspaper editors and publishers..

There are honest and objective local "Mainstream" journalists, editors and publishers who try and produce a newsppaper that presents all sides of every issue.

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Many times the critical reader will discover that these local "mainstream" journalists, editors and publishers cave in to pressures, and/or who are prejudiced and nonobjective by nature.

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Local "mainstream" reporters, editors and publishers are interested in deadlines and getting stories written that people will read.

If a critical reader can help them do that, then their contributions will be greatly appreciated.

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