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Thursday, August 20, 2009

08/20/09 The Mount Vernon Briefing

Comprehensive News Feed for Mount Vernon, NY.
  • SUV fire ignites apartment house in Mount Vernon
    posted on August 20, 2009 03:00:00 pm
    MOUNT VERNON - No one was injured late last night after an old SUV that caught fire ignited a nearby three-story apartment building, the fire department said.
  • Westchester briefing
    posted on August 20, 2009 03:00:00 pm
    ... by police. The three men, whose descriptions were sketchy, got away with a wallet and a cell phone. MOUNT VERNON: A 24-year-old city man was accused of causing $10,000 worth of damage at Mount Vernon Hospital last weekend. Police said Archie ...
  • East Side Church Hit By Graffiti -- Again
    posted on August 19, 2009 03:00:00 pm
    ... was cleaning up Wednesday after it was targeted by vandals overnight. It was the second time in a week that the Mount Vernon AME Church, located on Mount Vernon Avenue, has been hit with graffiti. More than 20 profane messages were spray-painted ...
  • James Vincenzo Sabatino Dinardo
    posted on August 18, 2009 02:15:41 pm
    James Vincenzo Sabatino DiNardo, age 88, died Sunday, August 16, 2009, at his home in Fort Scott.
  • More Details
    posted on August 19, 2009 10:55:43 pm
    ... telling honest and complete stories. Darien's tales are so rich and soulful you can envision every verse. The Mount Vernon native has performed all over New York City including Joe's Pub and S.O.B.'s to audiences who are awestruck by his ability to ...
  • Plea made for hungry and proud
    posted on August 18, 2009 05:42:09 pm
    ... Andrew Spano formally launched the effort at the Food Bank yesterday, accompanied by two municipal officials. Mount Vernon Mayor Clinton Young appealed for help, saying 10 organizations in his city are supplied by the Food Bank. (2 of 2) Bedford ...
  • Despite empty office buildings, officials say Yonkers draws interest
    posted on August 17, 2009 03:00:00 pm
    ... Ellis tracks office vacancy throughout the county, and it groups Yonkers in a southern West chester region with Mount Vernon, New Rochelle, Pelham, Mamaroneck, Larchmont and East ches ter. According to CB Richard Ellis' second quarter 2009 real ...
  • Lower Hudson Valley residents grapple with health reform plan
    posted on August 17, 2009 03:00:00 pm
    ... "I think all people should be covered," she said, though she isn't familiar with the particulars of the bill. Mount Vernon resident Desaree Ricketts said she has no problem with the plan, because she would still be able to get the medication she ...
  • This Cookie Doesn't Crumble: New Book Details Foster Child's Success Story
    posted on August 18, 2009 06:19:50 am
    Mt. Vernon, NY, August 17, 2009 -- -- A new book from author and successful businesswoman Cassondra "Cookie" Humphrey stands to give hope to millions of Americans who are growing up in the nation's foster care system.
  • Gordon carries on tradition of giving back
    posted on August 17, 2009 09:26:54 am
    In a purple T-shirt and with her curly hair pulled back into a ponytail, Jule Sussman was waiting for Ben Gordon as the heat rose off the blacktop at Mount Vernon's Hartley Park yesterday.
  • Mount Vernon building could become tough sell
    posted on August 17, 2009 09:17:14 am
    ... tenant can be a daunting prospect. And these aren't the best of times for the South Third Avenue Complex in Mount Vernon. For two decades, the three buildings in the city's downtown have been home to an eclectic variety of government programs and ...
  • Disabled Mt. Vernon woman trains for Hudson swim fundraiser
    posted on August 16, 2009 03:00:00 pm
    ... part of the quadricentennial celebration of Henry Hudson's exploration of the Hudson River. Born and raised in Mount Vernon, Simmons, who is studying for her second bachelor's degree - this one in forensic psychology - describes herself as a ...
  • Executor helped Jackson become rich man
    posted on August 17, 2009 12:49:22 am
    ... top rock acts. He represents 28 members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 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 ...
  • Police take gun from Hudson Valley political candidate
    posted on August 14, 2009 03:00:00 pm
    ... 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 ...
  • Mt. Vernon Pol. Candidate Found Passed Out with Gun
    posted on August 14, 2009 06:58:00 pm
    ... 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 ...
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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.

However, these local journalists, editors and publishers who have succeed in resisting the pressures to be biased are few and far between.

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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