From WASHINGTON POST / AP:
The story that General Electric did not pay federal taxes last year was widely reported everywhere but NBC.
It’s the kind of accountability journalism that makes readers raise an eyebrow, if it doesn’t raise their blood pressure first. General Electric Co., reported the New York Times last week, earned $14.2 billion in worldwide profits last year, including $5.1 billion in the United States — and paid exactly zero dollars in federal taxes.
The front-page story drew widespread commentary in newspapers and on many Web sites. ABC News and Fox News, among others, were all over it…
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EDITOR: “Morning Joe” on MSNBC reported extensively on the GE story Wednesday morning, perhaps as a reaction to media criticism.
I guess that my wife and I will have to help make up for “poor” General Electric.