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  Soros, Hong Kong Donor Fund J Street One of the hottest stories in Washington at the moment was broken by my former Forward and New York Sun colleague Eli Lake, who reported that the left-wing advocacy group on Arab-Israeli issues J Street is being funded by George Soros and a Hong Kong-based figure named Consolacion Esdicul. The Washington Examiner, Weekly Standard, and Atlantic (Jeffrey Goldberg) all follow up. This all raises plenty of questions, but among them are: Will President Obama, who has been attacking the Supreme Court and Republicans in Congress for supposedly allowing "foreign-controlled corporations seeking to influence our democracy" the ability to "spend freely" reconsider his close relationship with J Street now that he knows it is funded by a foreign individual? Goldberg Versus Walton Remind me if I ever get rich not to start an art museum. It seems to be just an invitation for attacks from the press. First was Ronald Lauder, who started an art museum on Manhattan's Upper East Side and got smeared by the New York Times as a thank you. Now comes Alice Walton, whose Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas has gotten her not just one but two negative columns by Jeffrey Goldberg in Bloomberg News's View section. Jeff is a former colleague and such an intrepid reporter and good writer (see the opening pages of his book Prisoners, for a particularly gripping example) that I really hesitate to quarrel with him. The commenters on the Bloomberg Web site have done a pretty excellent job of it already, on both pieces. Goldberg Versus Walton Remind me if I ever get rich not to start an art museum. It seems to be just an invitation for attacks from the press. First was Ronald Lauder, who started an art museum on Manhattan's Upper East Side and got smeared by the New York Times as a thank you. Now comes Alice Walton, whose Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas has gotten her not just one but two negative columns by Jeffrey Goldberg in Bloomberg News's View section. Jeff is a former colleague and such an intrepid reporter and good writer (see the opening pages of his book Prisoners, for a particularly gripping example) that I really hesitate to quarrel with him. The commenters on the Bloomberg Web site have done a pretty excellent job of it already, on both pieces.  The Goldberg Manipulations A journalist respected for factual, unflinching reports scapegoats Jewish settlers. 'Mosaic' Deceptions Link TV, a satellite channel describing itself as "the first national network presenting viewpoints seldom covered in the U.S. media," is trying to expand its distribution. "Mosaic," its flagship program, fails to contribute to greater understanding of the Arab world because it presents news clips without context and without full disclosure of whose perspectives the broadcasters are presenting. Soros, Hong Kong Donor Fund J Street One of the hottest stories in Washington at the moment was broken by my former Forward and New York Sun colleague Eli Lake, who reported that the left-wing advocacy group on Arab-Israeli issues J Street is being funded by George Soros and a Hong Kong-based figure named Consolacion Esdicul. The Washington Examiner, Weekly Standard, and Atlantic (Jeffrey Goldberg) all follow up. This all raises plenty of questions, but among them are: Will President Obama, who has been attacking the Supreme Court and Republicans in Congress for supposedly allowing "foreign-controlled corporations seeking to influence our democracy" the ability to "spend freely" reconsider his close relationship with J Street now that he knows it is funded by a foreign individual?
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