http://archive2.mrc.org/taxonomy/term/18178/all en http://archive2.mrc.org/commentary/politicians-journalists-have-eyes-wrong-ball <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-source"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> By</div> <a href="/author/dan-kennedy">Dan Kennedy</a> </div> </div> </div> <p >     The news media have, for two weeks, <a href="http://businessandmedia.org/articles/2008/20081111142512.aspx" />endlessly expressed outrage at AIG’s spending</a> several hundred thousand dollars on a sales conference held at a <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Phoenix</st1:place></st1:city> resort – after getting federal bailout billions. The impression conveyed has been that AIG executives took money from us taxpayers and immediately turned around and blew it on wine, women and song, hanging out at a hoity-toity resort, wallowing in caviar on our dime.</p><p><a href="http://archive2.mrc.org/commentary/politicians-journalists-have-eyes-wrong-ball" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Commentary MRC Business AIG businessconferences DanKennedy ignorantjournalists noBS salesconferences salespeople sponsors Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:54:33 +0000 admin 29688 at http://archive2.mrc.org