The Daily Targum 2011-09-28

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High: 72 • Low: 65

The Rutgers men’s soccer team tied its non-conference matchup with Adelphi last night despite a hat trick from sophomore forward Kene Eze.

Students hold vigil on Douglass campus to remember 9/11 BY ANASTASIA MILLICKER ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

Lit candles marked the way toward remembrance last night during the “Never Forget Candlelight Memorial” on the back lawn of Woodbur y Commons-Bunting Cobb on Douglass campus. The ceremony, organized by the resident assistants and Peer Academic Leaders (PALs) in Woodbury Commons-Bunting Cobb, featured key speaker Ron Miskoff and student speaker Sarah Morrison, a School of Arts and Sciences senior. Morrison brought with her The Scarlet Tribute, a flag comprised of students’ handprints, making its second appearance on campus.

SEE VIGIL ON PAGE 4 JENNIFER MIGUEL-HELLMAN / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Eric Alterman, a columnist for The Nation and professor at Brooklyn College, talks about the lack of objectivity in today’s mainstream media yesterday in the Busch Campus Center Multipurpose Room.

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Columnist gives insight on media bias BY ALEKSI TZATZEV CORRESPONDENT

Opening with a cor rection from “media is” to “media are,” Eric Alterman gave a lecture on media bias and the state of American media last night at the Busch Campus Center to about 20 students. “Media bias is a big problem,” said Alterman, a professor of journalism and English at Brooklyn College, during the lecture sponsored by the Rutgers University Programming Association. “It is one of many big problems that we have with our media today.” Alterman, who is also a columnist for The Nation and numerous

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other online publications, spoke about the plurality of media and its many dif ferent facets, from its creation today and how it is has turned into a largely political factor. “The media are an enormous amalgam of lots of dif ferent kinds of animals,” he said. “They are so different from each other, and there are so many of them that you can say almost anything about the media and it will be true.” Alterman made sure to dif ferentiate between the journalists’ individual viewpoints and their final products — many of them turning objectivity into a detriment. He pointed to Bar r y Goldwater’s 1964 presidential election loss to L yndon B. Johnson, a

liberal, as a turning point for conser vative media. “The conser vatives said to themselves something that was true,” he said. “We are never going to turn this countr y into the conser vative countr y we think it ought to be. … We need to tur n the media around before we turn the countr y around.” In the wake of this transformation, conservatives invested in think tanks that could rival the presumed-liberal media outlets such as NBC, ABC or CBS, he said. “This pressure hassled the mainstream media to report their old ideas as if they were new ideas and to police

JOVELLE ABBEY TAMAYO / SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Two women get their hair washed before a cut at Indigo Hair Salon Monday to raise money for needy families. For the full story, see PAGE 5.

SEE BIAS ON PAGE 4

Protests continue after Deloatch’s death BY AMY ROWE

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ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

The libraries are sponsoring daily readings for Banned Books Week.

A group of about 50 New Brunswick residents continued to protest incidents of alleged police brutality yesterday, following the shooting last Thursday of 47-year-old Barry Deloatch involving the New Brunswick Police Department. The protests, which began outside City Hall Thursday, continued ever y day since the shooting, but moved to the intersection of Throop Avenue and Handy Street and took on a mobilized route around the downtown area. Protestors walked from Handy Street to Commercial Avenue, interfering with traffic while walking in the middle of the street. They held signs that said, “Change the Whole Administration” and “Why are we the only city with no police layoffs? Corruption!” “We apologize for inconveniencing anyone, but we’ve been inconvenienced for 30 years,” said Tormel Pittman, a New Brunswick resident, through a megaphone to those in cars stopped on the street.

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Tormel Pittman, a New Brunswick resident, speaks on a megaphone advocating against police brutality while protesters block traffic yesterday afternoon at the intersection of Commercial Avenue and George Street.

The protestors made their way to the intersection of Commercial Avenue and George Street, where they stopped for about 15 minutes and arranged themselves to block traf fic from all four corners. Sadie Rothenberg, a Mason Gross School of the Arts first-year student, said the protestors were very strategic.

“It makes a statement and draws attention to their cause,” she said. “I think it’s effective.” Aver y Whitted, also a Mason Gross School of the Arts first-year student, agreed the protest seemed well organized. “The way they’ve arranged themselves is really smar t, people can’t

ignore them,” he said. In response to car horns honking in the protest’s direction, Pittman advised patience. “Your dinner might be a little cold, but my brother Barry didn’t make it home,” he said.

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