By Mondo Times editors
Boulder Colorado USA
Posted on February 8, 2010 at 10:05am

Dominic Carter Rises, Falls at NY1 News

-- February 5, 2010: New York Magazine profiles the rise and fall of NY1 News anchor Dominic Carter:

"When he was on top, he was Dominic Carter, the boxy political anchor for NY1 and longtime host of the cable news program Inside City Hall. He is one of the city’s most prominent African-American journalists and a well-liked political interpreter of the New York City scene, often called upon to explain New York’s power elite to Chris Matthews or Charlie Rose.

But Carter’s world imploded spectacularly last fall after the New York Post discovered he was standing trial in an upstate courtroom on charges of spousal assault. Every move he has made since then has seemed intentionally wrongheaded—as though he were determined to destroy the Dominic Carter we see on television. If so, it has worked. His station let him go. Except for a few court appearances, including his subsequent trial in November and sentencing last month for attempted assault, he has been, as he tells me, “in hiding.” He has not returned calls from former colleagues. He has kept largely to his house, an impressive colossus in Pomona, 40 minutes north of the city, except for the fifteen days he spent in jail (last week, he was released early, at the halfway mark of his sentence).

His wife of 25 years has remained tenaciously at his side. In fact, as odd as it sounds, she blames herself for his predicament."

The full story:
http://nymag.com/news/media/63660/

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