'NY Post' Reporter's Racial Profiling Suit Counters 'Post' Editorial

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Post Reporter Sues Cops, Post Editorial Defends Cops The Same Day [Race-baiting]
Published 5/8/2008 by Ryan Tate at Gawker
Yesterday the New York Civil Liberties Union filed a federal suit alleging police racially profiled Leonardo Blair, a black New York Post reporter who said he was arrested and harassed for simply walking down the street with his fiancée. The same day, his bosses at the Post ran an editorial saying there was too much fuss made over racial profiling: Anti-cop radicals [like] the New York Civil Liberties Union... won't be happy 'till every last cop is off the streets (and maybe behind bars)... If cops stand down, as ...

Idle Chatter: Bill Clinton, Ryan Seacrest, more
Published 5/8/2008 by jbercovici at Portfolio.com: Mixed Media
... rewrite. Too bad she didn't edit My Life. [NYT] -Tribune Co. has promoted Randy Michaels to chief operating officer, via a press release that is only mildly wacky. Michaels had been overseeing the interactive and broadcast units. [Tribune] -TorrentSpy, a defunct service that helped users find materials to download, has been hit with a $110 million fine for copyright violations. [Wired] -Do you appreciate irony? Read this. [E&P;]Related Links Deficit, Schmeficit The Economy's B Team ...

Post: 'We're Cured of Racial Profiling'; Post Reporter: 'I Was Racially Profiled'
Published 5/8/2008 by david at Jossip
... Oh, irony. “On the same day that a New York Post editorial claimed racial profiling was not a growing problem, one of the Post’s own reporters filed suit against the city claiming to be a victim of such profiling.” [E&P] It’s as if the paper’s departments don’t communicate with each other to fine tune their message; this would never happen at Fox News. (The editorial is ...