UPDATE: NY1 Responds to Fulani

UPDATE: NY1 Political Director Bob Hardt responds: “Ms. Fulani is obviously entitled to her opinion but our award-winning record of covering her and her organizations speaks for itself. Ms. Fulani has received several opportunities to appear on our program and has had ample opportunity to give her side of the story in every report we’ve Read More

WSJ Live Blogs Me, And Everyone

Somebody is taking up Bob Hardt’s suggestion that there needs to a full-time blog reader to read all the stuff that people are writing.

At about 2 p.m., the Wall Street Journal is going to launch just that.

“It’s going to be like a blog that watches the blogs. A meta-blog!” a person familiar Read More

Debate Debate: Suozzi v Press

You might think that the Suozzi campaign would want to focus at this point on the decent performance of their candidate at the debate last night, rather than harping on a nearly incomprehensible dispute over the rules.

But you’d be wrong.

Here are a couple of (trimmed!) excerpts from an email Dan Gerstein sent out Read More

Fields Overlooked?

There’s no better way to defeat the news cycle than to begin an event at 7:00 p.m. amid a great national tragedy. So NY1′s Mayoral forum last night, understandably, doesn’t get much ink in the papers this morning.

Still, it was a more interesting spectacle than many expected. Set as a town hall meeting Read More

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Thanks

Thanks for reading us this week. Somewhat to our surprise, there were suddenly a lot of you.

For this we thank David Chai, and also The Note, which called us “a top-notch blog”; Bob Hardt, who thinks we’re “really cool”; and the Albany Times-Union, which quoted us at our most banal: Read More