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...journalists several weeks ago when it let Terry Dolan, the right-wing fund raiser, use NBC's facilities, cameras and crews to put on his version of a news story. Dolan heads the National Conservative Political Action Committee (NCPAC). Had NBC capitulated to right-wing pressure? No, insists Steve Friedman, Today's executive producer, the idea was all his own. Dolan considers all network news liberal, bad and alike. So Today staged a match-off: his version vs. NBC's of the same story. The verdict has to be that both were flawed...
Today did not offer the far left equal time, though Friedman says he might consider it. Actually, as the American political spectrum has moved rightward, the far left is without enough numbers, money or influence to be an effective pressure group. The influential spectrum now moves from liberals to Establishment conservatives ("moderates") to right-wingers, who have the most money, the most articulate and aggressive spokesmen and the most effective computerized mailing lists, like Dolan...
...composed of investigators from both the Justice and Labor departments, had compiled a 100-page memo recommending that a grand jury be urged to indict Presser for allegedly putting "ghost workers" on the Local 507 payroll. The prosecutors had won convictions of or guilty pleas from two men: Allen Friedman, Presser's uncle, and John Nardi Jr. Evidence showed that from 1972 to 1981 the two were paid a total of some $275,000 by the Cleveland local without doing any work for it and that Presser had signed their paychecks. Friedman complained bitterly last week in a Fort Worth...
...relief, then, to find little mention of Iraq in Friedman's new book, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 488 pages). Instead the author embarks on a "trail of globalization" that leads him from Wal-Mart warehouses in Bentonville, Ark., to office parks in Bangalore, India. Thanks to a convergence of trends--cheap telecommunications, expanded trade, open-source software, Google--the global playing field is being "flattened" faster than ever before, allowing workers in India and China to compete with, and even outperform, their U.S. counterparts. Friedman sees this transition...
...Friedman's upbeat thesis occasionally collides with reality: even in India, the high-tech sector accounts for just 0.2% of employment. He concedes that the rapid spread of technology and information may also boost Islamic extremism, by heightening Muslims' frustration at the underdevelopment of their societies. But Friedman is a born optimist. When he asks the young Indians doing jobs outsourced from the U.S. whether they are worried about terrorism or war with Pakistan, they tell him they're too busy working. To Friedman, that's a sign that a flatter planet will be a better one. "To the extent...