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Homeland Security: The Money Trail (Interactive Presentation)
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Graduate school students from Columbia University’s School of Journalism participating in a unique program called News21 he produced an interactive flash presentation that is A MUST VIEW HERE.
The News 21 program seeks to bolster investigative reporting and show how stories could be distributed outside of the traditional mainstream news organizations. That Is Us.
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2 Responses to “Homeland Security: The Money Trail (Interactive Presentation)”
That was pretty interesting. There’s a lot of information on there, although some of it is a little misleading. One thing I’d like to point out is that non-competetive contracts are not bad or evil. I work for a company that does a lot of government contracting on sensitive electrical equipment. The vast majority of our contracts are non-compete because nobody else can provide the service we offer on these machines. I imagine that’s true for a lot of the other non-compete contracts.
Hey Amanda,
As one of the reporters on this project who did a substantial amount of work researching contracts, I agree with you (I wrote the story about procurement). I tried to explain this on a broader level — that contracting itself is not bad or evil — and show that the biggest problems result from a broken system.
I also tried to show how a lot of the finger-pointing coming from Congress is disingenuous, especially in an election year, especially considering they themselves were responsible for setting up the system, the goals of the dept., and so on.
Thanks for reading!
Nina Gregory