NPR CEO Vivian Schiller has resigned following the controversial release of a video showing an NPR fundraiser describing the Tea Party as racist and saying that the network would be better off without federal funding. Just Monday, Schiller had spoken publicly about the importance of federal funding to NPR. The video, as you… Share this:
Audit Notes: More Murdoch, Hiltzik on the Social Security Trust Fund
A couple of weeks ago, Allan Sloan wrote about Rupert Murdoch is using $673 million of his shareholders’ money to buy Murdoch’s daughter Elisabeth’s production company. That self-dealing caused him to say this: It’s one thing to have News Corp. employ family members. But it’s a different thing to use assets of a company 88
Unnecessary Secrets
Back in 1999—simpler times, perhaps—there was a little-noticed brouhaha in federal court over an effort to get several secret US government documents released through official channels. The James Madison Project, a Washington-based nonprofit that champions openness and accountability in government, especially on national security and intelligence matters, was sparring with the Central Intelligence Agency. At
Las Vegas Sun Shines Light on Nevada Health Care
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—“Where do you go for great health care in Las Vegas?” Answer: “The airport.” That local joke set Las Vegas Sun reporters Marshall Allen and Alex Richards on a two-year quest to figure out what was wrong with medical treatment in Las Vegas—and why. The result, after a digital dig into 2.9 million inpatient
Corporate Cousins
Daniel Gross brings up the fact that it’s been two years since Michael Boskin’s editorial in The Wall Street Journal claimed “Obama’s Radicalism Is Killing the Dow,” and that since that piece ran, stocks have soared. But Boskin was hardly alone. So it’s worth revisiting how frequently that same line ran in Rupert Murdoch’s media
