Did a critique of an award handed out by the Urban Land Institute--ULI-- cost a freelancer his job? That's what Morris Newman says happened. "The [ULI] person told me, very civilly, that I could no longer serve as a writer-for-hire for Urban Land, because, and this is verbatim, “we can’t use writers who have opinions.“ You'll recall that Newman criticized the ULI, a national group for developers and planners, for giving LA Live its top award earlier this year.
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