Billionaires Become Their Own Political Parties
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on October 19th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
Billionaires Become Their Own Political Parties
Jim Rutenberg, NYT Mag
These are difficult times, so it makes sense for America’s journalistic institutions to locate new revenue streams.Just look at the New York Times, always an industry leader: It’s become the official stenographer of the Obama White House.On Saturday, The Times ran a story about the president and his response to the Ebola outbreak that read like it was dictated word for word by the president’s top men.
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Ebola is a terrible disease that has ravaged West Africa and taken a life in America. It seems evident that some breach of protocol allowed a Texas nurse to travel from Dallas to Cleveland and back after she had helped treat an Ebola patient but before she started showing symptoms herself. Mistakes have been certainly made, as they say.
