The New York Press Club is collecting specific and verifiable information about First Amendment abuses by public safety agencies operating in New York City. Please let us know if you have been improperly obstructed by members of any public safety agency while on assignment or while engaged in spec coverage with intent to publish. Incidents can be reported on our Coalition for the First Amendment page. The New York Press Club and a number of other organizations representing journalists in New York City formed the Coalition to monitor police-press relations and to document and protest tactics and behavior that contravene First Amendment protections. Each such instance that comes to our attention is posted on the Coalition page. We urge working journalists who feel they have ... Continue reading →
As sushi's gone mainstream, the supply of raw fish has expanded beyond the traditional cuts to a new product called "scrape." Wikimedia Commons My Q and A column in the San Francisco Chronicle appears on the first Sunday of every month. This one is about safety problems with tuna scrape. Q: I had no idea that the tuna in my sushi roll was scraped off the bones in India, ground up, frozen, and shipped to California. Is this another "slime" product? Can I eat it raw? A: No sooner did the furor over lean, finely textured beef (a.k.a. "pink slime") die down than we have another one over sushi tuna. On April 13, the Food and Drug Administration said Moon Marine USA, an importing company ... Continue reading →
Lillian "Lil" Musial, the wife of St. Louis Cardinals legend and baseball great Stan Musial for nearly 72 years, died Thursday at home surrounded by family members. She was 91. Grandson Brian Schwarze confirmed the death. Lil Musial died at 6 p.m. at the couple's home in Ladue. "She passed on her favorite number," he said. Stan Musial's uniform number was 6. Schwarze said his grandmother recently had been ill. "We've all kind of known this was coming," Schwarze said. "She went in peace." Lillian Susan Labash was born in 1920, one of eight children of Sam and Anna Labash. Her parents owned a family grocery store in McKean, Pa. Lil first met Stan after her father took her to see the Donora (Pa.) Zincs ... Continue reading →
Falling bear in Colo. campus photo killed by car (AP) – 19 minutes ago BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — A bear tranquilized at the University of Colorado last week and widely viewed in a photo showing it falling from a tree is dead after being hit by two cars.The 280-pound black bear was struck on a highway around dawn Thursday. It happened a little more than 2 miles from the university.The bear was relocated to a wilderness area 50 miles west of Boulder, after it wandered onto campus, was tranquilized and fell from a tree onto some pads.Wildlife officials say the bear likely returned to the area because it lacked natural food sources because of dry weather.The bear was identified by a tag placed on him ... Continue reading →
NEW YORK -- In World War II's final moments in Europe, Associated Press correspondent Edward Kennedy gave his news agency perhaps the biggest scoop in its history. He reported, a full day ahead of the competition, that the Germans had surrendered unconditionally at a former schoolhouse in Reims, France.For this, he was publicly rebuked by the AP, and then quietly fired.The problem: Kennedy had defied military censors to get the story out. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President Harry Truman had agreed to suppress news of the capitulation for a day, in order to allow Stalin to stage a second surrender ceremony in Berlin. Kennedy was also accused of breaking a pledge that he and 16 other journalists had made to keep the surrender ... Continue reading →
NIAGARA FALLS, Ontario — Daredevil Nik Wallenda is set to walk a 1,800 foot tightrope across Niagara Falls this summer, a feat the seventh-generation member of the famed Flying Wallendas said has been his childhood dream. "I feel like I'm on top of the world," Wallenda said Wednesday after the Niagara Parks Commission, which months ago refused even to consider the idea, voted unanimously to allow the walk between the United States and Canada. Approval from the Canadian panel was Wallenda's largest remaining obstacle after he convinced the New York Legislature to pass a bill allowing the walk last year. Wallenda plans to run a custom-made 2-inch wire 60 to 70 feet above the 160-foot gorge, which will dip down in the middle, meaning he'll ... Continue reading →
As most New Yorkers know, the subway system is the lifeline of New York City. In 1946 Stanley Kubrick set out as a staff photographer for LOOK Magazine to capture the story of New York City’s subway commuters. Kubrick was not the first photographer to depict the New York City subway. In 1938 Walker Evans shot many amazing portraits of unknowing riders with a camera hidden in his coat. This may have influenced Kubrick’s work. This Kubrick image is a very “shot from the hip,” Walker Evans-style portrait. Stanley Kubrick. Life and Love on the New York City Subway. Passengers in a subway car. 1946. Museum of the City of New York. X2011.4.10292.26C As you can see below, with the exception of iPods and smart ... Continue reading →
