POST BROOKLYN CARNIVAL OBSERVATION
Trying to Muzzle Small Media
Photo: (Extreme left) without a flag is carnival boss of bosses southerner William Howard while others such as Governor Andrew Cuomo (center) proudly display Caribbean pride during last Monday Carnival Parade.
As summer 2014 fades and Brooklyn's West Indian Carnival last Labor Day weekend becomes history, EVERYBODY'S Magazine makes the following points due to phone calls by a handful of irate carnival executives who do not like what this magazine posted on its facebook and other social media pages, about the "dinosaur" article in this magazine 2014 carnival edition and the Pryce is Write column on our website, www.everybodysmag.com
EVERYBODY'S supports carnival. (This magazine was born in Brooklyn's carnival.)
We do not support or defend the weaknesses of individuals and organizations.
The magazine has a responsibility to provide information and not to hide information from our readers.
We congratulate all revelers, masqueraders, steelband orchestras, costume bandleaders and the public for a peaceful and violent-free carnival weekend.
We thank the New York Police (NYPD) for an excellent job especially to the more than 5,000 officers assigned to carnival events.
We congratulate the permit holder and administrative organizer, the West Indian-American Day Carnival Association (WIADCA).
We believe that the WIADCA, an organization that is to some extent funded by tax payers, need to be an open organization and to choose young and creative minds to take the carnival to the next height.
Columnist Vinette Pryce who has covered Brooklyn's carnival for almost 40 years when the mainstream media had no interest in the carnival has the right to expose the fact that WIADCA demanded grassroots press and freelance journalists pay $700 to cover carnival if they did not have a "valid NYPDA Press Pass."
We believe the principal reason governors of NY State, mayors of NYC and politicians come to the carnival is mainly due to the fact that elections in New York City are only a few days after carnival. Therefore, politicians don't pressure the WIADCA for transparency because they want to be in good grace with WIADCA to campaign down Eastern Parkway.
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