Bloomberg Discovers New Meaning For “Limited Partnership”

Tom Robbins notes the irony of Bloomberg being showy offering $120,000 to encourage minorities and women to get involved in New York’s film industry while at the same time doing little to encourage an open call for higher-paid managers for his troubled NYC Media division:

The Bloomy Law & Order event also conveniently came a couple weeks after the Voice reported that the mayor handed the son of a close friend a $114,000 a year job at what’s now called NYC Media. The mayor’s managers never even bothered to interview anyone else for the post, or comply with the city’s own equal opportunity rules.

The mayor’s Law & Order minority hiring plan is also a step or two divorced from everyday reality. Since Wierson, Scotland and a few other miscreants were booted last spring, Bloomberg’s managers have filled at least four top jobs at the city station, all of which have gone to whites who either worked at Bloomberg’s own private TV outfit, or who are friends of station executives. Not a single minority has been hired.