Dear readers,
Today, we join more than 50 local news publishers in sharing an open letter to Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani. Earlier this year, Greenpointers published an op-ed detailing our experiences with the Mayor’s Office of Ethnic and Community Media (MOECM).
As misinformation, AI, and massive layoffs have significantly hampered local news outlets, MOECM should have been a much-needed salve and a booster in sustaining this critical work. Instead, its funds went toward Big Tech companies…
Supporting community news is good. Given preference, promotion, privilege to every known demo group except white males is not, despite the fact that along with white women are still the largest ethnic/gender group in NYC.
Since you are obsessed with the above I suggest you play this on July 4 and have your HR Dept. make it must viewing for all new employees.
https://youtu.be/_cUWT6c0lcc?si=hIxFP1uzviVGayKn
We have one publisher, one full-time writer, and a couple of freelancers. But flattered that you’d assume we’d have an HR department!
Great Response. Despite our differences re demo politics or whatever you want to call them Greenpointers is a terrific pub., by far the best re news of Greenpoint.
I wonder if beggars can be choosers & truly free & independent agents. For the same very good reason that we strive to separate Church and State, is that not also a valid argument for not having the State and Media intertwined, dependent, or – at worse- subservient to the crumbs, the whims or the demands of power?