{"id":5894,"date":"2010-03-05T07:08:58","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T12:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=5894"},"modified":"2010-03-05T07:08:58","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T12:08:58","slug":"bloomberg_discovers_new_meaning_for_limited_partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/03\/bloomberg_discovers_new_meaning_for_limited_partnership.html","title":{"rendered":"Bloomberg Discovers New Meaning For &#8220;Limited Partnership&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Robbins notes the irony of <a href=\"http:\/\/gothamist.com\/2010\/03\/04\/lo_2.php\">Bloomberg being showy offering $120,000 to encourage minorities and women to get involved in New York&#8217;s film industry<\/a> while at the same time <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.villagevoice.com\/runninscared\/archives\/2010\/03\/mike_bloombergs_1.php\">doing little to encourage an open call for higher-paid managers for his troubled NYC Media division<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The Bloomy Law &#038; 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&#8217;s now called NYC Media. The mayor&#8217;s managers never even bothered to interview anyone else for the post, or comply with the city&#8217;s own equal opportunity rules.<\/p>\n<p>The mayor&#8217;s Law &#038; 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&#8217;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&#8217;s own private TV outfit, or who are friends of station executives. Not a single minority has been hired.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Robbins notes the irony of Bloomberg being showy offering $120,000 to encourage minorities and women to get involved in New York&#8217;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 &#038; Order event also conveniently came a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-follow_the_money"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5895,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5894\/revisions\/5895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}