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Tuesday, May 23, 2000

For people in NYC, this Saturday, May 27th, Stay Free magazine is distributing maps in Times Square from noon to 5 pm on the growth and nature of outdoor advertising in Manhattan.

If you want to help hand out New York's Great Outdoors maps, they will be meeting at the army recruiting center around noon. Wear red. People will also be shooting the event to make a doc about it. Here's a related article and a piece from 1960 on How to look at bilboards.

For people outside NYC or who can't make it, they have some versions of the map online. The easiest to read is the flash version. There is info on what you can do and related links. There is also info on getting copies of the map which will be included in the next issue of the magazine (which is worth subscribing to - there are back issues online).

Carrie Mclean, who edits Stay Free (and used to edit Escandolo, wrote about wanting to do public actions. She also has a sort of weblog.
posted by steve rhodes 5/23/2000 4:47:23 PM

Monday, May 22, 2000

I don't read Suck daily like I used to when it first launched. But I try to read Hit & Run every Thursday and check then to see if they have had anything else interesting in the previous week.

Josh Quitner did a good article, Web Dreams on Joey and Carl and Suck back in 1996, but I also wanted to know more about Owen and Ana Marie Cox (who have both since left) and Heather Havrilesky's (aka Polly Esther). Luckily, Online Journalism Review has a profile (5-22-00) of Heather.
posted by steve rhodes 5/22/2000 10:29:58 PM

Newsweek points out in A Life or Death Gamble (5-29-00) that only two states, Illinois and New York, give death row inmates the rigth to use DNA tests to prove their innocence. In How Sure Is Sure Enough? (3-22-99), they looked at the case of a man who was executed who may have been innocent.

Salon's May 11th article,The hanging governor asks, "Did execution-happy George W. Bush sign off on the lethal injection of an innocent man?"

Sara Rimer and Raymond Bonner looked at the cases of five people for their May 14th New York Times article Bush Candidacy Puts Focus on Executions and wrote:

...a close look by The New York Times at a half dozen executions carried out during Governor Bush's tenure -- including interviews with jurors, prosecutors, judges, witnesses and co-defendants still on death row -- makes clear that a legal and judicial system rife with these conditions creates, at the very least, the risk of an innocent person being sent to death row.

Nightline looked at the death penalty on Monday, May 22nd. There is a transcript with a link to a video clip (the transcript will only be available for about a week). There is online piece Rethinking the Death Penalty. Gov. Ryan of Illinois says he does not think anyone will be executed while he is in office. The 1999 Chicago Tribune series on The Failure of the Death Penalty in Illinois was one factor in his decision to stop executions.

Ralph Nader, one of the only presidential candidates to oppose the death penalty was interviewed (in real video) today on Political Points, daily webcast from the New York Times and ABC News.
posted by steve rhodes 5/22/2000 9:40:49 PM

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