I will say that generally Mint press articles are high quality, though when I first saw it It thought this was a case that their enthusiasm for a scoop went well beyond the reliability of their evidence No news org has 100% success rating but I'd put them up high - well beyond AJ when it was at its best.
On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote: > The Mint Press News article about the FSA fighters who accidentally > spilled some sarin gas in a tunnel while juggling the bottles during a > carefree moment intrigued me. Where did this new online periodical come > from? Assuming that the 18 people on staff were not writing, editing, > etc. for free, that’s a pretty piece of change to keep going. A cursory > search on the paper revealed an interesting article that appeared in the > January 18, 2012 Minnesota Post on “Who is MintPress and why are they > doing all this hiring?” Written by David Brauer, it profiled a > 24-year-old Palestinian-American woman named Mnar A. Muhawesh’s who > founded Mint Press News. Ordinarily such a young person would not have > the funds for such a start-up unless they were world-class hustlers like > Bhaskar Sunkara but Ms. Muhawesh had help: > > Muhawesh has investors, “retired businesspeople” whom she will not > name > — unfortunate for a journalism operation fighting alongside people > seeking transparency. (The site’s “About Us” page is similarly skinny.) > Her father-in-law Odeh A. Muhawesh — an adjunct St. Thomas theology > professor, and veteran Twin Cities businessman — is a key adviser. > > full: > http://louisproyect.org/2013/09/03/the-provenance-of-mint-press-news/ > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Facebook: Gar Lipow Twitter: GarLipow Solving the Climate Crisis web page: SolvingTheClimateCrisis.com Grist Blog: http://grist.org/author/gar-lipow/ Online technical reference: http://www.nohairshirts.com
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