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Posted by BrooklynBus on Sat Apr 11 10:16:19 2020, in response to Re: MTA Issues Letter to The New York Times, posted by Mitch45 on Wed Apr 8 14:05:15 2020. I stopped believing the New York Times around 1993 when it ran a Page 1 story about my former NYCT boss. He had left for another transit system and it referred to him “as one of the most respected transit managers in the United States.” That was clearly an opinion and was not appropriate for a news article. The story also wasn’t worthy of being on Page 1 of the Times. It was only there because he was friends with the reporter.And now that I think of it, back in the late 60s when I was in college, there was a student 20 years older than the other students. She also had a reporter friend from the Times. One day she hung a few balloons on the mezzanine of the 68 Street station to “beautify” the station before the MTA’s Station Beautification Program. Guess what? That was also a Page 1 New York Times story and May have even been the inspiration for the Adopt a Station or Station Beautification programs. Rather than complementing the student, our Polici Sci teacher became very upset. She told her that she had been trying for thirty years to do something that would get her into the New York Times and you do it with a few stupid balloons. |
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