By Steve Diamond on Oct 7, 2008 in Annenberg Chicago Challenge, Barack Obama, Bill Ayers, William Ayers | 89 Comments
As I have explained to Global Labor readers, the New York Times interviewed me for their recent story on the Ayers/Obama relationship. After the story ran I blogged on the inadequacy of the story and received an email from the reporter, Scott Shane. An exchange of emails followed and below is the most recent exchange.
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By Steve Diamond on Oct 5, 2008 in Annenberg Chicago Challenge, Barack Obama, Bill Ayers, Chicago School Reform Collaborative, Chicago politics, Joyce Foundation, New York Times, Weather Underground, William Ayers | 284 Comments
I can easily understand why some readers may have become confused by the explosion of stories today on the Obama/Ayers relationship.
The partial story told by the New York Times today is collapsing of its own weight but has likely added to the confusion. Since I am one of the “bloggers” referred to without an explanation […]
By Steve Diamond on Oct 5, 2008 in Annenberg Chicago Challenge, Barack Obama, Bill Ayers, Media Bias, Media Handling of Story, New York Times, Obamedia, Weather Underground, William Ayers | 176 Comments
Apparently the New York Times does not have enough news print to get the story right the first time so they have been emailing me and posting on the blogosphere in order to shore up their faulty story about the Ayers/Obama link.
I responded earlier to an email from Scott Shane, author of the story, by […]
By Steve Diamond on Oct 4, 2008 in Annenberg Chicago Challenge, Barack Obama, Bill Ayers, New York Times, William Ayers | 43 Comments
UPDATED: October 3.
Once again, the New York Times misses the story, parroting the false claims of the Obama Campaign about the relationship between Bill Ayers and Barack Obama. Some months ago the Times reported without comment the Campaign’s lie that the first time Obama met Ayers was in late 1995 at a “meet and greet” […]
By Steve Diamond on Oct 2, 2008 in Annenberg Chicago Challenge, Barack Obama, Bill Ayers, Chicago School Reform Collaborative, William Ayers | 93 Comments
An exchange of letters in late 1994 (links below) between Vartan Gregorian, the President of Brown University, Adele Simmons, President of the MacArthur Foundation, and Bill Ayers, the founder of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, demonstrate that Ayers played a direct personal role in the recruitment of members of the Challenge’s board of directors.
The Board was […]
By Steve Diamond on Sep 26, 2008 in Economy | 185 Comments
I am a lawyer, political scientist and law professor. I teach courses and conduct research on the global capital markets, business law, international human rights and labor law. My post here yesterday, and at my blog, Global Labor and Politics, was “Why the Left Should Back Paulson….”
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The same free market de-regulation ideology that got us […]
By Steve Diamond on Sep 25, 2008 in Economy, Hank Paulson, Housing Crisis, Real Estate | 89 Comments
SusanUnPC’s note: We all know Steve Diamond for his investigative work on Obama’s ties to Bill Ayers. Steve is a lawyer, political scientist and law professor. His blog is Global Labor and Politics.
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The Paulson Plan is not well understood. It is not a bail-out of failing Wall Street companies. Those companies are being […]
By Steve Diamond on Sep 23, 2008 in Annenberg Chicago Challenge, Barack Obama, Bill Ayers, Chicago School Reform Collaborative, Chicago politics, Penny Pritzker, Richard Daley, William Ayers | 77 Comments
Published September 22, 2008 at my blog, Global Labor and Politics.
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As far as it goes, Stanley Kurtz of the conservative Ethics and Public Policy Center and the National Review Online, has done a reasonably good job in this essay in the Wall Street Journal of capturing the intimately close political relationship between Barack Obama and […]
By Steve Diamond on Sep 8, 2008 in Annenberg Chicago Challenge, Barack Obama, Bill Ayers, Chicago School Reform Collaborative, Chicago politics, Crown family, Penny Pritzker, William Ayers | 191 Comments
As Global Labor readers are well aware the University of Illinois at Chicago denied Stanley Kurtz of National Review access to the official records of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, the six-year-long $160 million education reform project led by, among others, Barack Obama and Bill Ayers.
The denial of access to the archives of the CAC was […]
By Steve Diamond on Aug 28, 2008 in 1st Amendment, Annenberg Chicago Challenge, Barack Obama, Bill Ayers, Chicago politics, Linda Darling-Hammond, William Ayers, Woods Fund | 81 Comments
The other night was a surreal experience.
Chicago is home to a retired conservative University of Chicago professor named Milt Rosenberg who hosts an evening talk show on WGN radio. WGN stands for “World’s Greatest Newspaper” because it is owned by the Tribune Company which also owns the Chicago Cubs. Jack Brickhouse, the voice of the […]
