All The News That's Fit To Print?
Quite a number of news stories have transpired
over the past couple months; some of them worthy of coverage and
commentary, while quite a bit of them not worthy of the
vast amount of time and space given them on air and in print by
the mainstream media. There is however a powerful story
that has not captured the attention of the vast
majority of the MSM, and it begs the question, "Why
not?".
Given the proclivity of most of the MSM to hold
themselves up as crusaders for truth; proclaiming
their job is to afflict the comfortable and comfort
the afflicted, and to fight for the rights of the
oppressed by disclosing the unethical and/or illegal
misdeeds of their rich and powerful oppressors, one would
logically conclude this story would cause the MSM to
salivate like canines in one of Dr. Pavlov's experiments. Not
so. And not because it happened in some podunk town. It
happened in New York City.
Here's the story in a nutshell. The CEO of a well
known corporation who also served on the board of directors of
of a non profit charitable organization, took money provided by
a government grant to the non profit that was earmarked for
helping underprivileged kids and Alzheimer patients in the form
of "loans" totaling $875,000 and used the
money to financially support his failing corporation.
The MSM should be on this story like Ted Kennedy
at a hosted bar, or Robert Byrd at a Martex sale, right? This is
the kind of story they live for.
Jeanette Graves is president of the non-profit
Gloria Wise Boys & Girls Club based in The Bronx, which in
2003 received $3.7 million in government grants and another
$500,000 in government contracts to serve the needs of
20,000 children, elderly residents and people with disabilities.
Ms. Graves said "loans" were taken out by board
of director member and CEO of Progress Media, Inc., Evan Cohen,
the founder of the politically liberal Air America Radio, which
hit the airwaves in March of 2004.
Mr. Cohen secured $213,000 in "loans"
for Air America by using rubber stamp replicas of Jeanette
Graves' signature on documents she had never seen, and a wire
transfer of over $400,000 of funds from the Gloria Wise Boys
& Girls Club went to the corporation without Graves'
knowledge. An investigation by the New York City Department
of Investigations is ongoing.
What about the New York Times, LA Times, Washington
Post, Chicago Tribune, and scores of other newspapers across the
country that have ignored the story?
As of this writing, only three MSM
organizations have reported this story; The Washington Times,
New York Post and New York Sun, granted conservative papers all.
Res Ipsa Loquitor...the facts speak for
themselves.
Tuesday August 9, 2005