Sunday, March 2, 2014

On the importance of keeping investors out of the newsroom, and not treating your readers like fools

Click here to access article by Paul Carr from PandoDaily.

This piece offers some very interesting tidbits about connections between a billionaire co-sponsor of Ukrainian regime change, Greenwald, and billionaire sponsored journalism in general.
Mr. Greenwald is a very popular guy on Twitter, with about 320,000 followers. And he has earned a reputation for bullying people who don’t share his views, frequently using his megaphone to launch unfair and frequently dishonest personal attacks. It will be interesting to see if he keeps this up at the $50 million news venture he’s starting that’s being bankrolled by eBay billionaire Pierre Omidyar. – Christian Science Monitor