New Orleans Turns out that Charlie Rose, the TV personality on PBS, was one of many outfits that used unpaid interns in place of wage-based staff to do the basics in putting together his TV show from research to guest codling to whatever. He stands out now only because he got caught. Steven Greenhouse reports …
Month: December 2012
Kentucky’s Big Sandy Coal Fired Power Plant Brings Memories of Arkansas White Bluff Fight
New Orleans A picture in the Times of “Big Sandy,” the 1100 megawatt coal-fired power plant in Eastern Kentucky being shutdown finally over the next three years by the giant utility company, American Electric Power, brought back memories of a great fight 40 years ago in and around Pine Bluff, Arkansas where what is now …
Walmart, the “Creative Corrupter” in Mexico
New Orleans Let’s not mince words here. The detailed review of Walmart’s activity in Mexico in the New York Times is a picture of a criminal conspiracy of a rare order and a culture in total control recognizing no laws or morality in its quest for commercial dominance. The Times’s examination reveals that Wal-Mart de …