The Rev. Jesse Jackson's charity, the Citizenship Education Fund, has filed an amended federal tax return for 1999. The New York Times deals with this news this morning by publishing a four-paragraph item in its national section under the headline, "A Jackson Group Amends Tax Return." The Times article totally omits the fact, reported in today's New York Post, that the New York City Board of Education is listed on the new tax return as having donated $15,000 to the Citizenship Education Fund. Surely that news would be of interest to the Times's New York City readership, even if the Board of Education claims, as the Post reports, that there was no such donation. The Post reports the news under the headline, "Jackson's 'revised' tax return still error-filled," and generally provides a fuller and more skeptical account than the New York Times does.
British Air: The "Business Digest" column on the front of the business section of today's New York Times carries an item under the headline, "$1.4 Million Investment at Airline." The item reports that "In a rare vote of confidence, Sir Christopher Bland, the newly appointed chairman of British Telecommunications, will invest about $1.4 million of his own money in the debt-ridden company." BT isn't an airline.