He’s sounding more and more desperate and frenetic with his accusations. And how ironic that he charges Stombler with libel, when he can write at length about her all over APN and elsewhere. Though, I admit it was amusing to see him get so mad and throw that hissy fit on here!

I sincerely hope he waives his FERPA. However, I don’t think this will ever happen. He knows what the other sides have against him and wouldn’t dare risk that information getting out into the public.

And “Again,” I don’t think APN can do the story. Since Cardinale is the founder, editor, and frequent writer of that “news service,” there is a clear conflict of interest. As the posts on Intersex News already addressed, it was already a conflict of interest for Cardinale to write a journalistic story about himself in the 3rd person and distribute it through the website he operated.

I’d be more trustful if AJC wrote something. But Cardinale’s opinion of AJC suggests that he would dismiss anything they wrote about him, too.

Conveniently for Cardinale, then, we are left with only one side to his story. What a shame.

The good news is that potential employers, colleagues, clients, allies, and admissions committees can Google Cardinale and get a handful. And maybe those future contacts will stay far, far away.

I thought APN was a reporting service – can’t they do a story that includes ALL the evidence? Waive the FERPA!

So far no reporters have contacted me for my evidence, including my evaluations. I’ve offered twice on this blog. If a serious reporter wanted to write a balanced story, I would consider waiving my FERPA for them.

But no I’m not going to keep coming on here a week after publication, responding to the same one or two anonymous commenters’ grasping at straws, when the truth is already on my side.

“centrist Democratic Party”

that’s some funny shit right there….

The AJC is the corporate paper. CL is an “alternative” newsweekly (which implies a perspective). Even trying to be objective involves the observer constructing their idea of what the story is, what the “sides” are, and how they should be balanced.

The corporate media typically tries to strike a balance between the center-left position and the ultra-right/corporate position. A very limited part of the spectrum of ideas–particularly, omitting the voice of working families and their advocates; or anything left of the centrist Democratic Party–is included in the so-called balance.

APN’s interviews with our would-be mayors have been a lot longer on substance than anything else I can recall reading. The interviews’ sections on affordable housing are a bit irrelevant, because the city has little role in that and less cash for it. But otherwise it’s been useful work, if only in revealing the total lack of candlepower and/or candor of candidates.