I highly doubt I'm going to get any response to this, see something similar appear in the correction pages of the paper, or see the same observation in a published letter from someone else. So, I'll reach my own select number of followers with evidence of confusing reporting.
The prior two blog postings have revisited the reporting of the 1964 Kitty Genovese murder. Their URLs were used in Tweets and an e-mail to the film's writer-director Puk Grasten, as well as e-mails to the bylined reporter of the July 27, 2015 story, John Anderson. No rise. No returned undeliverable e-mail. Even NYC's current Commissioner for Media, Cynthia Lopez, was reached out to via Tweets. No rise.
So, here's the complaint to public@nytimes.com
What's up with this story?
Aside from the film using a number in its title that is NOT the number that was the rallying cry, John Anderson makes us believe the movie is just being shot, or just finishing up.
The website (http://www.37themovie.com/) for the movie tells us it was out in 2013 at Sundance. John Anderson tells us..."the movie being shot.." Is the Times in an alternate universe? Did John get his press release very late? Conflicting schedules for the actors? They're mentioned in efforts that are already completed.
In 1964 The Times lied to us about the murder and the number of witnesses, etc. Went to town on everyone's morality. And now, you seem to be recycling a 2013 story, the making of the movie, as a current one. The NYC commissioner is current, but wouldn't have been the commissioner in 2013 when approvals would have been sought to shoot the movie.
The Kitty Genovese is a cursed Egyptian tomb for The Times. Leave the story alone. You only keep looking bad.
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