Bloomberg stands by screwing journalists

Bloomberg, of course, didn’t touch on the topic Friday morning of how the New York Police Departmentoverzealously assaulted and arrested journalists, several of whom had received accreditation from the NYPD itself. Keep in mind that for those brave men and women that decide to report from the battlefront overseas, those rights do exist.“We did the right thing,” added the mayor.Those working under Bloomberg and those hoping to usurp him from his throne as boss of the Big Apple seem to agree that the barring of reporters from coverage Occupy Wall Street has been atrocious. “American foreign correspondents routinely put themselves in harm’s way to do their jobs, in some of the most brutal dictatorships in the world. And their NYC colleagues deserve the freedom to make the same choice,”Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer said in a statement last month. “Zuccotti Park is not Tiananmen Square.”Additionally, Representative Jerrold Nadler called out Bloomberg earlier this week and asked for a federal investigation into the NYPD’s outrageous raid and subsequent clearing out of Zuccotti Park. On Friday, Bloomberg called any such investigation “ridiculous.”“I think he’s wrong,” Bloomberg added of Mr. Nadler.Bloomberg also failed to discuss on Friday how the city was dealing with Brookfield Estates, the owner of Zuccotti Park, which owes the city around $139,000 in back taxes. Diana L Taylor, Bloomberg’s girlfriend, was paid almost that sum just for sitting on the company’s board of directors for nine meetings in 2009.