Maybe the editors at FoxNews online need to do a better job of sifting through the OBVIOUS news stories that seem to be making headlines at every other “objective” news channel and site on the planet.

In the biggest scandal ever to hit Iraq’s security contractor Blackwater, the NY Times has reported that 2 ex-workers have accused the private security company of defrauding the government “for years” by filing “bogus receipts, double billing for the same services and charging government agencies for strippers and prostitutes, according to court documents unsealed this week.”

Since Fox News had a heavy penchant for reporting on the moronic Acorn-Pimp-Prostitute “undercover-video” episodes, maybe AT LEAST their website can start living up to that bogus “Fair & Balanced” trademark, that way their readers won’t wise-up and start turning elsewhere for news. Amazingly, a quick trip to their website reveals not one single headline about the biggest scandal to rock the biggest Security contractor currently operating in Iraq.

Gabriel Snyder over at Gawker did a great pie-chart analysis of what the real “stakes” are if the NY Times starts charging for online readership in 2011, and what exactly the “metered” readership is all about.
I.E – if you read more then a certain number of stories, you’ll recieve a prompt (of some sort) to subscribe to the magazine (and/or) the website. (Ouch!) The clinch is, with as much free content being available online (as there currently is), will the NY Times succeed? God only knows, and NY Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. has no idea either. So it’s all up in the air! Read more here

According to the NYTimes:

“Nonprofit groups rarely look a gift horse in the mouth, and the relief effort in Haiti is desperate for resources. But the experience of wasteful giving in the past, coupled with the ease of speaking out via blogs, Facebook and Twitter, have led to an unprecedented effort to teach Americans what not to give. One particularly influential blog is being written by Saundra Schimmelpfennig, an international aid expert who once worked for the Red Cross. Ms. Schimmelpfennig’s blog, Good Intentions Are Not Enough, is attracting more hits in a day than it used to get in a month, as everyone from the State Department to the White House seeks information about giving.” Read it here