New York Times on arrests in Chicago: “The arrests on Monday of two men with personal ties to the mayor provided the most detailed look yet at a scheme in which, prosecutors say, senior aides routinely selected people for city jobs based not on merit but on political connections.”

Not exactly a shocking revelation for anyone who has ever had a connection with Chicago.

Bad buy

July 20th, 2005

Emily Bell: “A self-confessed ‘digital immigrant’, Rupert Murdoch might have finally run into a boundary which he cannot transcend.”