A recent article from On Top Magazine quotes State Senator Ruben Diaz, Sr. as saying that NY Post reporter Candice Giove "disregarded" what he said about a gay rights group moving into a building named after him. Giove, who formerly was a mud-slinger for the Riverdale Review, quoted an "unnamed" source as saying that Diaz was furious that Bronx Pride was moving into Rev. Ruben Diaz Gardens. In a statement released on Monday, Diaz said Bronx Pride's move honored his work. “I was surprised to read today's New York Post's sensational story by Candice Giove because she completely disregarded what I specifically said to her about Bronx Pride moving in to the Rev. Ruben Diaz Gardens building.” Good to see that Giove is using all the tricks of the trade she learned from Andy Wolf at the Riverdale Review.
Based on her history of writing garbage over so many years for that worthless rag called the Riverdale Review, it is clear that Candice Giove is not a journalist in the proper sense of the word.
ReplyDeleteShame on the NY Post.
Are you saying that you REALLY think Papa Diaz is OK with Bronx Pride moving in? Diaz is trying to make Candice look bad while putting on a totally fake show for his new tenants.
ReplyDeleteWhile I don't like Diaz Sr., I know that Giove has no scruples whatsoever. The Post sent her to do a hatchet job on the Occupy Wall Street movement and she happily complied.
ReplyDeleteShe has a long history of doing the bidding of Riverdale Review yellow journalist Andrew Wolf-trying to destroy reputations. Glad to see she hasn't changed her tactics-although she did ditch her goth look for Fox news.
She would look better with some body piercings like a nose ring.
Giove has lots of practice printing lies about people and making up stories. Every story she wrote for the Riverdale Review was full of lies.
ReplyDeleteI gotta agree with Anon 9:33 am here. You mean the biggest homophobe in NY history is actually THRILLED that this happened?
ReplyDeleteWe're talking about a guy who is organizing a boycott of El Diario because they editorialized for same-sex marriage.
I wrote briefly for the Riverdale Press, and interacted with Giove a few times. On a professional level, I didn't trust her as far as I could throw her, especially after having been on the receiving end of a "hit piece" by the Riverdale Review (I had confronted Christine Quinn with a poll on 9.11 which said that over 50% of NY'ers wanted a new investigation. The Review did not like that, preferring instead to ask her softball questions).
ReplyDeleteHowever, on a personal level I liked Giove, and saw that although she was definitely a minion of the racist Bufoon Andy Wolf, she had heart nevertheless and even seemed slightly conflicted about her role.
I read her piece on OWS, and I have to say that although it was definitely biased, the fact is that the OWS movement is 100% full of crap and is being run by very shady foundation funded groups connected with US intelligence. After having done serious research into the topic, I am convinced that OWS is nothing more than another NED/CIA "People Power Coup" on the level of what they have done in SErbia, Ukraine, and more recently in Egypt.
The idiots "protesting" down on Wall Street don't have a single clue as to the real issues facing this country, and for the most part are simply playing the part of a "Dupe a mob," a very critical component of the "Color Revolution" or "People Power Coup."
I have no doubt the scenes Giove portrayed in her piece actually happened. What's wrong with reporting it? Plenty of people are reporting on the OWS protest with 100 positive spin. To me, it's ok to show it in a negative light as well.
Candice is a fine reporter. Just because she is reporting things you do not want to hear, doesn't mean she is a liar or a bad journalist. Her piece on staying a night with the Occupy Wall Street protestors was great.
ReplyDeletePlease pay no attention to the opinion of Baghdad Rob. I read blog posts accusing him of being an apologist for Ruben Diaz Jr., acting like a crony with a sugar daddy, talking like a socialist and thinking like a Wall St. occupier.
ReplyDeleteThe only issue is if she accurately reported comments by Diaz, which he refutes. Like him or not, he's never been one to be two faced, he wears his biases on his sleeves. So who is lying?
ReplyDeletethat shirt is a crime against fashion
ReplyDeleteThe problem I have with Ms Giove is that she's an unprincipled hack who has spent most of her career as a scandal monger and yellow journalist. No self-respecting professional reporter would do what did for so many years at the Riverdale Review. She has been a willing vessel for the Review editor Andy Wolf's ranting campaign of innuendo and malicious misrepresentation.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of The Riverdale Review, up in Riverdale there is now a major backlash against that poor excuse for a newspaper & its editor Andrew Wolf.
ReplyDeleteThe locals say that they are so enraged by Wolf's mean-spirited, misleading and abusive attacks on the neighborhood's schools and community volunteers that they have instituted a boycott against The Review. Hundreds of Bronxites have signed petitions against The Review. As a result, many of that paper's paying advertisers have withdrawn their ads and Wolf has been forced to fill up the empty space with public-service announcements.
Listen, I have no argument that the Review is Yellow Journalism, although usually without the proper grammar found in most other newspapers of its ilk. But, in reality it is no different there than at any other newspaper. Reporters ALWAYS (if they want to keep their jobs anyway) follow either the implicit instructions of the Editors/Owners or simply catch the vibe of what's acceptable to write about and self-censor.
ReplyDeleteIt takes a rare journalist nowadays to buck a system that puts Pravda to shame. The Riverdale Press is not really much different.
The latest hack, Brendan McHugh, is a pathetic hack. Somehow in the latest issue he finds a way to blame Cassino for the body found in Van Cortlandt Lake. It's laughable really. But I guarantee he is just following the instructions of the Racist Buffoon Wolf.
At least give Giove some credit for leaving the review. Yes, her pieces may be "hacky" still, but not much different from other reporters for the Post or News, or even the Times. The bottom line, if you are a mainstream newspaper reporter, you are not going to write anything that will threaten the system in any way. If you do, you are out of a job. Give Giove a break!
Let's not mince words. She has spent the majority of her so-called career slinging printed shit for a delusional, untalented windbag. It's no excuse that she was only following orders. She is responsible for the harm that she's done.
ReplyDeleteWell, to use a shopworn phrase, "We'll agree to disagree." She needed that job, so she had to write what the racist buffoon wanted her to write. At least she left though. Does that not count?
ReplyDeleteAnd again, I am not defending Giove's position. I am simply saying that most if not all "mainstream" reporters do the same thing as she does, just slanting from their particular point of view. What about the New York Times printing Judith Miller's lies? I'd say that is much more important to worry about that Giove's treatment of the foundation funded CIA operation known as Occupy Wall Street.
PS, what's with all the anonymous posts here? What is there to be afraid of?
Manny is trying to mix real stuff from our neighborhood with nutty conspiracy theories about the rest of the world.
ReplyDeleteThere he goes again! The CIA and OWS? How about the CIA and 9/11? Or the CIA and UFOs? Or the CIA and Apollo 11? Or the CIA and Princess Diana? And what about Big Foot and the Kennedy assassination?
ReplyDeleteAs was said before, “Manny G” has the tendency to be a conspiracy nut. So I would like to direct him (and your other readers) to the following book review from The New York Times:
THE PARANOID STYLE
''AMONG THE TRUTHERS'
By Jonathan Kay | Reviewed by Jacob Heilbrunn
A journalist travels the world of conspiracy theories, about everything from President Obama’s birthplace to 9/11 to vaccines.
Read More: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/15/books/review/book-review-among-the-truthers-by-jonathan-kay.html?ref=books
The best answer to give to a grand-conspiracy theorist is the following simple statement: "THAT'S JUST WHAT THEY WANT YOU TO THINK."
ReplyDeleteAfter reading his pathetic rationale for Candice M. Giove's shameful and long record of yellow journalism, all I can say to Manny G is this: Hi, nice to meet you, my dumb friend.
ReplyDeleteBronx press what a joke! Do you expect any quality reporters with an idiot like Andy Wolf as commander in chief. Remember that big goof ball John. Glad he was fired all he did was copy other reporters stories and change it around a bit. Where is he now ? Village voice.
ReplyDeleteIS THE RIVERDALE REVIEW GOING THE WAY OF THE DODO BIRD?
ReplyDeleteWhen I first heard about the boycott of The Riverdale Review, I couldn’t understand how a public boycott could work against a free newspaper.
Now I understand. The advertisers are The Riverdale Review’s weakness.
In recent weeks, I have noticed what looks like a serious decline in the number of large ads, and fewer and fewer papers being distributed to street boxes.
If this trend keeps up, that angry and insane little newspaper will soon be nothing but a bad memory.
No doubt about it . . . Wolf's hurting.
ReplyDeleteThe loss of each advertiser is a stinging defeat for Andy Wolf.
ReplyDeleteThe anti-Riverdale Review bus billboards look great. Sock it to 'em!
ReplyDeleteI just saw that big beautiful poster ad on the bus shelter at 256th St. & Riverdale Ave. Nice work boycotters!
ReplyDeleteThose "Boycott the Riverdale Review" ads appearing on the bus shelters are a VERY smart move. The Review's publisher Andy Wolf must be having a total shitfit.
ReplyDeleteIn the past Wolf would threaten community-based organizations to place ads. Now he is begging, offering deep discounts. But who, except his ardent supporters, would advertise in that hate-filled publication? Many have dropped out. You just have to look at how emaciated the paper is.
ReplyDeleteGood Riddance!
It's true Wolf has been a hatemonger for years. Now he is getting just desserts and the nearly 1,000 residents who have signed onto the boycott will rejoice.
ReplyDeleteYeah, maybe Wolf could work for Candice Giove? I'm sure she would love it.
ReplyDeleteI've been missing these Pravda-like comments about the "boycott" (quotation marks added because I'm sure the boycotters are the Review's most avid readers)!
ReplyDeletethe recently uncovered letter sent from the PS 24 PA to their children's teachers speaks volumes about how much the "boycotters" value honesty and transparency.
Isn't it pretty expensive to buy bus shelters like that? It makes me wonder where these folks are getting their funding from.
ReplyDeleteBravo to the courageous boycotters. As Mark Twain once said:
ReplyDelete"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare."
those bus shelters are too rich for my blood
ReplyDeleteWell the boycotters seem to have a lot more cash to throw around than Wolf’s dwindling readership (who seem to be just a gaggle of frugal geezers on Johnson Avenue).
ReplyDeleteWhat about the longstanding allegations that New York City Councilman G. Oliver Koppell (D-Bronx), along with his friend U.S. Congressman Eliot Engel (D-NY-17), secretly helped finance yellow journalist Andrew Wolf’s purchase of the Riverdale Review (a politically motivated newspaper in their districts) back in the 1990s?
ReplyDeleteIf these elected officials engaged in such shady dealings by using either their own money or other people's money to solidify their hold on a local news outlet, it would seem to be a flagrant conflict of interest as well as an egregious breach of the public’s trust.
For the record, the allegations were first made public by Richard Stein, co-publisher of the Riverdale Press, in the Jan. 16, 2003 edition of his newspaper. In a letter that he published addressed to Mr. Wolf under the title “Who’s selling the news,” Mr. Stein wrote:
“And speaking of secret deals, when will you disclose the roles that Congressman Eliot Engel and Councilman Oliver Koppell played in helping to finance your purchase of the Review? When will you reveal the identities of the politically-connected people who loaned you the money? What can you tell us about the ways those obligations influence what you write?”
It seems obvious to me that the allegations must be true . . . otherwise both politicians would surely have come out forcefully to deny them and indignantly attack the accusers.
So, at long last, Councilman Koppell and Congressman Engel, please answer this question: ARE THE ALLEGATIONS TRUE?
Andy Wolf = beleaguered + exasperated
ReplyDeleteI have lived in Riverdale since the 1960s and I am mortified that the community's reputation is being sullied by this bully Mr. Wolf. But I am even more distressed that the local elected officials who are supposed to protect us are actually in cahoots with Mr. Wolf.
ReplyDeleteI don't know who's paying for them, but the bus shelter ads against Andy Wolf and the Riverdale Review are inspiring!
ReplyDeleteIt's not like Wolf's advertising base was healthy to begin with. There is a newspaper box outside P.S. 7 that still says the Review has a "Marketplace" section. That section is long gone, as are most of the ads that used to fill it. The last thing Wolf needed was a public boycott resulting in the departure of even more of his remaining advertisers. That guy is doomed.
ReplyDeletePS 7? right, that's one of the schools that the boycotters use as a 'smoking gun'. They feel the Review somehow treated the past principal unfairly for daring to report on the school's dismal results, especially for the most at-risk children, and lambasting the DOE for putting an unqualified person in charge of a school with immense challenges.
ReplyDeletethat principal left to work in the private sector, and she was replaced by a traditional, experienced, up-through-the-ranks administrator who's beefed up the curriculum and worked with the teachers to go the extra mile with the kids who need it most. PS 7's done a 180: got a A for progress and environment last year, with especially notable gains made by special ed, English language learners, and kids in poverty.
imo, you're in a bad place when you say a principal's potential hurt feelings are more important than the education his or her kids are getting. might be time for a gut/morality check - is maintaining secrecy and the status quo at some fairly dysfunctional/underperforming neighborhood schools really this important?
THANK YOU ANONYMOUS @ DEC. 2nd 6:21 AM for discussing the allegations that Council Member Koppell and Representative Engel secretly helped finance yellow journalist Andy Wolf’s purchase of the Riverdale Review in the 1990s to solidify their hold on a local news outlet.
ReplyDeleteThe fact that they have never denied these allegations of a secret deal speaks volumes!
I'm so happy to see this boycott against the Riverdale Review moving forward with the advertisements on the bus shelters. Andy Wolf has been subjecting Riverdale to his outlandish and demonstrably false propaganda for far too long. It's time time to put an end to it.
ReplyDelete"demonstrably false"
ReplyDeleteCare to cite a few examples? The 'demonstrably false' things listed on the boycott's official literature are just differences of opinion, not things that are actually, provably false.
Gotta love that boycott!
ReplyDeleteI went to the Boycott the Riverdale Review event held on Saturday at the restaurant on Johnson Ave and was impressed by how many like-minded people I met there, how determined they are, and how they use social media to engage with the wider community. I was delighted to join in.
ReplyDeleteSo if Ollie Koppell, Eliot Engel and Jeff Dinowitz are the ones who are behind Wolf, why not protest outside their offices?
ReplyDeleteI remember protesting outside Stanley Simon's place in the 1970s with signs saying "Simon Must Go." Well, guess what? . . . Now he's gone!
No, seriously: just one concrete example of a indisputable, provable falsehood.
ReplyDeleteThe locals pols are doing all they can to try to stymie the boycotters, who are not doing anything wrong. Those hypocrite pols support Wolf's undisputed right to publish malicious nonsense but then they seek to deny the boycotters the chance to freely express their justified indignation. It's time for the pols to stop meddling with their constituents' rights.
ReplyDeleteit seems like the boycott people have gained the upper hand
ReplyDeleteYes, the boycott folks gained the upper hand by hitting back. The Review has no defense against them . . . it's a sinking ship.
ReplyDeleteYES, a sinking ship. A while back I heard that the advertising guy from the Riverdale Review was BEGGING some store on Johnson Avenue to please agree to take a measly quarter-page ad. It's pretty pathetic.
ReplyDeleteOn the front page of tomorrow's Riverdale Press is an article by Nikki Dowling about the Boycott the Riverdale Review bus shelter ads.
ReplyDeleteThere is a nice color photo of one of the bus shelters. But the long, long disjointed article totally misses the point that the boycott movement is more than just PS 24 parents. For example, there are also many PS 81 parents, RKA parents, SAR parents, and Kinneret parents. In addition, the boycotters include many senior citizens and others who have no connection to the local schools.
Even more surprising, the article never mentions all of the advertisers who have left the Riverdale Review (by my count almost 20 major advertisers gone!). Also, it fails to note that almost 1,000 people have signed on to the boycott movement.
Still, that front-page color photo alone is worth more than a thousand words!
If the Riverdale Review is bleeding advertisers and must beg for tiny ads, the Review is not even a sinking ship but a just sinking rowboat!
ReplyDeleteThe SUNY official quoted at the end of the piece said it best: it's impossible for schools with severe teacher-admin dysfunction to successfully serve children. No one has made a credible case that the Review has anything to do with the dysfunction at RKA or PS 24, schools where about half of the teachers don't believe the principal is an effective leader, trustworthy, or puts children first.
ReplyDeleteThe outright begging to Johnson Ave merchants must have started when Mr Wolf suddenly realized that boycott would suck up his advertising base
ReplyDeleteHe knows that his nasty tabloid is facing an existential threat
Good
Closing credits for the Riverdale Review anyone?
ReplyDeleteI do get the sense that time is running out for The Riverdale Review. Thank goodness.
ReplyDeleteSo no one can provide a single example of a provable falsehood printed in the pages of the Riverdale Review?
ReplyDeleteInteresting.
The begging thing is very telling. Maybe time is really running out for that rag?
ReplyDeleteMid-December is a time when our citywide and neighborhood newspapers are fat with advertising. That's clearly not the case with the Riverdale Review this year. I wonder why.
ReplyDeleteSame deal with the Press. It's been loaded with "your ad here!" filler the last couple of months, and that's even with their six-week-long promotion to mail a free copy to every non-subscriber in the neighborhood. The local economy, be it real estate or retail, is very fragile right now.
ReplyDeleteThe Riverdale Press has many more advertisers, a lot of them with big, expensive full-page ads.
ReplyDeleteAnd I read that the Review boycott has taken out AT LEAST A DOZEN of Andy Wolf's main advertisers, many of which are still running costly ads in other publications.
For example, Capital One Bank, Stew Leonard's and Omaha Steaks all recently withdrew their ads from the Review but continue to advertise big elsewhere (including the NY Times). Therefore, I think it's fair to say that the boycott is having a big negative impact on the Riverdale Review's bottom line.
The crisis at The Riverdale Review is playing out exactly the way the boycotters planned it. Try as he might, Andrew Wolf has no defense against this well-organized, well-financed and well-executed campaign.
ReplyDeleteI can't wait for the next act!
It's a new dynamic!
ReplyDeleteShe does seem to lack scruples, but she isn't known for being the most stable reporter, either.
ReplyDeleteShe was probably off her psych meds when she wrote that.
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