| From the Village of Brooklyn | OOURUR TTIMEIME PPRESSRESS THE LOCAL PAPER WITH THE GLOBAL VIEW | VOL. 21 NO. 47 .50¢ Since 1996 November 17-23, 2016 | View From Here Gwen Ifill, Pioneering Journalist, Dies wen Ifill, one of the most prom- inent political journalists in the Magnitude country, has died, according to GPBS. She was 61. When she took the helm of Washington of Election Week in Review in 1999, Ifill became the first African-American woman to host a major political TV talk show. Ifill covered seven Sinks In presidential campaigns and moderated the ■ By David Mark Greaves vice presidential debates in 2004 and 2008. More recently, she moderated a presidential onald Trump is Presi- primary debate between Hillary Clinton and dent-elect of the United Bernie Sanders. Ifill was also the best-selling States. It’s a nightmare and author of The Breakthrough: Politics and Dit won’t go away. It is unreal and yet Race in the Age of Obama. it is fact. This can change the course of In 2013, Ifill was named co-host of the American history, and not for the better, PBS NewsHour. In an interview with The for the country or mankind. New York Times, she reflected on what You try and follow Obama’s lead her appointment could mean to a new and pretend this is a normal transfer of generation. power, hoping for the best for the good “When I was a little girl watching pro- of the country, but Trump’s best efforts grams like this — because that’s the kind of are going in the opposite direction. His nerdy family we were — I would look up personnel choices for his administration and not see anyone who looked like me in have so far been literally terrifying. They any way. No women. No people of color,” are the foxes in charge of the chicken she said. “I’m very keen about the fact that a coop and the rest of the world are the little girl now, watching the news, when they chickens. see me and Judy [Woodruff] sitting side by With the team Trump’s assembling side, it will occur to them that that’s perfectly Journalist Gwen Ifill to populate his administration, of which normal — that it won’t seem like any big Rudolph Giuliani, Newt Gingrich and breakthrough at all.” did this with grace and steadfast commitment and free press that makes our democracy the odious Stephen Bannon are only Paula Kerger, president and CEO of PBS, to excellence.” work,” Obama said. three of four thousand, the country will said Ifill was “a fundamental reason public In a news conference, President Journalist Ray Suarez, who began work- be in constant turmoil, struggling against media is considered a trusted window on the Obama said he appreciated Ifill’s reporting ing at NewsHour on the same day as Ifill in Fascism, rapacious corporations, an world.” even when she posed tough questions to 1999, told Here & Now that Ifill was a mix on-going war against “Roe vs. Wade” “Her contributions to thoughtful report- him. of things. and the inevitable warming of the planet. ing and civic discourse simply cannot be “She always kept faith with the funda- “She was evenhanded yet tenacious,” Global warming. It almost sound cozy, overstated,” Kerger said. “She often said that mental responsibility of her profession, Suarez said. “She was exteriorly cool, if certainly on a spring-like November day. her job was to bring light rather than heat to asking tough questions, holding people in that’s even a word, but at the same time very But it means the extinction of species, issues of importance to our society. Gwen power accountable and defending a strong ➔ Continued on page 7 mass migrations, famine, drought, floods, pestilence, disease, leaving the world that we grew up in as something only seen in Dioramas at a Museum of Natural Nasty Deeds:they tore through the Deed Theft History exhibit in 2050. And yet we still have to pretend everything is still normal, skylight, to break the locks make a living and stay healthy while we Hits Home race to the battlefronts, of which there will be many, saving what we can while working toward the midterm elections. Hard Moving on from the Apocalypse, Flateau Realty brokers fall maybe it won’t be all that bad, and setting victim to heinous act; Cornegy, aside the cognitive dissonance caused Community Leaders putting “all by trying to reconcile Trump’s promises engaged in process on notice” of cutting taxes, reducing the national debt while simultaneously spending the he number of property owners fall- billions needed for infrastructure jobs, ing victims to illegal transference we have to see how that spending can of property ownership through be used to build our communities. What Tdeed theft is out of control. Since 2015, the constitutes the infrastructure industry, New York City Department of Finance has what skills and businesses will be need- investigated hundreds of cases. And some ed, what critical thinking and education have gone so far as to call the crimes acts levels have to be achieved to play a of terrorism. part? Because so much of infrastructure Earlier this year, New York City Council upgrade and repair will be necessitated Member Robert E. Cornegy Jr. and other by climate change, the new president, community leaders called attention to the previously a climate-change denier, problem by hosting a very successful Town will come around and acknowledge Hall on the incidences of deed theft in the science “based on new information Bedford Stuyvesant. One of the major event that came with the office”. After all, it partners was Flateau Realty, Inc. ➔ Continued on page 2 ➔ Continued on page 6 2 OUR TIME PRESS November 17-23, 2016 VOL. 21 NO. 47 Letter to the Editor Free WI-FI is in Bed-Stuy! Sick With Rage called in sick the day after so that I The most flattering version of people that could devote myself fully to wallow- voted for Trump is that they were frustrated peo- ing. I avoided all news outlets. I was ple who wanted to be heard. But they’d damn the Ishell-shocked. 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