NY Times Has Major Scoop!--UpdatedThere's some
sort of funny business involving loans to Air America by a charitable organization.
The state attorney general's office and the city's Department of Investigation are looking into whether a boys and girls club serving poor children and ailing elderly people in the Bronx had improper financial dealings, including loans to the Air America radio network, state and city officials said yesterday.(Translation: They said this to us when we finally called them up and asked about the reports
appearing on the blogs and in the other New York papers. We decided to run this today because everybody's paying attention to Cindy Sheehan, so we thought we could slip it out without attracting a lot of attention.)
Nonetheless, word of the investigations ignited a firestorm of criticism on the Internet, especially among conservative-leaning blogs that have essentially accused the network of robbing from the poor to pay its bills.(Not to mention accused the New York Times of shirking its duty to inform its readers of the scandal.)
Hat Tip:
Mrs MUpdated: Brian at the Radio Equalizer has
an excellent post on the Times' coverage.
