Is Nicholas Negroponte Murdochs Trojan Horse?
Long story short: Some appear to think so, what with Negroponte having received some $2.5 million from Murdoch in 2005 to help fund his One Laptop Per Child initiative. Yesterday I remarked on the importance of Negroponte’s appointment to Rupert Murdoch’s new Wall Street Journal editorial board. I cited a report in the Washington Post that morning which almost as an aside, in the final paragraph, listed the five members of the board, among them Negroponte. Yesterday’s New York Times did note, in an article by Richard Pèrez-Peña, that “four of the five committee members were first proposed by Dow Jones, while Mr. Negroponte was proposed by the News Corporation.” Today, though, the stool hit the fan: a Financial Times headline reads, “Dow Jones unaware of New Corp link to committee,” while the first paragraph of a story in today’s Wall Street Journal reads, “A foundation run by one of the members of News Corp.’s proposed committee to protect Dow Jones & Co.’s editorial integrity has fina
