Doug MacEachern of The Arizona Republic reports on the story within a story concerning AirMoonbat radio. The question of the day, and the past week, is why does The Elite Media Monoculture, in particular The New York Times, remain silent on the story. When AirMoonbat first went on the air, there were plenty of articles from the paper of record to give us all the details of how this liberal start-up was going to challenge conservative talk radio. But now that a scandal is brewing right in their back yard we hear only the sound of crickets. Could it be a case of liberal bias? Say it ain't so.
For the Boys & Girls Club, meanwhile, the results have been disastrous. The New York Department of Investigation announced in June that city grants and contracts to Gloria Wise - about $10 million worth - were to be suspended because its officials had approved "significant inappropriate transactions and falsified documents that were submitted to various city agencies."
You don't have to be a Columbia School of Journalism grad to sense that this developing story might have legs.
A private media start-up with huge political pretensions and meager financial underpinnings uses taxpayer dollars from a Boys & Girls Club to help pay the salaries of high-profile hosts like comedian Al Franken. As a result of these dubious loans and other self-dealing, the Gloria Wise club will be sending no more poor kids from the Bronx to summer camp. It will be providing a lot fewer services, if any, to the Alzheimer's patients it helped.
"I'm still rocking from the experience," said Anna Capell, 80, a member of the club's executive committee.
Wholly unrocked by the experience, however, is the Bronx-area paper of record, the New York Times, which, since the story began to seriously break on July 29, has published exactly nothing on the scandal.
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