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April 21, 2006
Times Editorial Page: Littlefield biased against Jews
In an editorial about the Michael Weber incident on the Times side of today's Chattanooga Times Free Press, Chattanooga Mayor Ron Littlefield is accused of being being biased towards northerners and Jews.
"Yet it is not a reporter's, or this newspaper's, pursuit of facts that is unprofessional. Rather, it is Mayor Littlefeld's defamtory public statements and his egregious reference to Mr. Weber's work 'in Brooklyn' (Mr. Weber worked once at Newsday in New York) that are wholly unprofessional and contemptible. That slur can be read both as anti-Yankee and anti-Semitic, since attacks on the Jewish community in New York traditionally referred to the acts of people "in Brooklyn.Mayor Littlefield's action managed, in a single stroke, to offend all responsible journalists here, to draw coverage to the anti-democratic attitude and thin skin of Chattanooga's mayor, and to demonstrate his bias against northerners and Jews."
News Update | By pulseblogger | 09:52 AM
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