Joanna
----- Original Message ----- Corin Robin on AJE:
``Several Fridays ago, I attended an excellent panel discussion on Occupy Wall Street sponsored by Jacobin Magazine. It featured Doug Henwood and Jodi Dean - representing a more state-centered, socialist-style left - and Malcolm Harris and Natasha Lennard, representing a more anarchist-inflected left.
Natasha Lennard is a freelance writer who's been covering the OWS story for the New York Times. After a video of the panel was brought to the Times' attention, the paper reviewed it as well as Lennard's reporting and decided to take her off the OWS beat. Despite the fact, according to a spokeswoman for the Times, that "we have reviewed the past stories to which she contributed and have not found any reasons for concern over that reporting".
Even more troubling, Lennard may not be hired by the Times again at all. Says the spokeswoman: "This freelancer, Natasha Lennard, has not been involved in our coverage of Occupy Wall Street in recent days, and we have no plans to use her for future coverage."
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2011/11/2011111013422670424.html
It was a great panel that revealed a wide spread on the US left, so naturally it couldn't be covered... Most of it probably went straight over her editor's head. The video link is here:
http://jacobinmag.com/blog/2011/10/video-ows-a-debate-on-left-politics-and-strategy-oct-14-in-nyc/
Several are regulars on LBO.
CG
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