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sashi
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by sashi » Tue Aug 18, 2020 11:13 pm
Coronavirus? The election? or just a young heir wanting to get an investment back? According to a few sources, Zuade Kaufman is the daughter of philanthropists Gladys Kaufman & Donald Kaufman (a former business partner of
billionaire philanthropist Eli Broad). Neither one of her parents' Wikipedia articles mentions Zuade. Strange, that. (
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Truthdig has apparently been shut down for the count, or at least until after the election. (The grayed titles are less directly related.)
background
- Anne Riley Katz, "Word's Worth", Los Angeles Business Journal, 12 December 2005.
- Ed Leibowitz, "Can you Dig it? Yes You Can", LA Mag, 25 February 2014.
- Deborah Vankin, "To Glorya Kaufman, the art of dance is a gift on several levels", LA Times, 1 December 2012.
- Mark Ames, "Media Blacklist Tied to Ukrainian Fascism & CIA Spying", Popular Resistance.org, 11 December 2016
2020 shutdown
- Counterpunch News Service, "Truthdig Employees Stop Work to Protest Labour Conditions", Counterpunch, 11 March 2020.
- Zuade Kaufman, "Open Letter from Truthdig’s Publisher & CEO: Breaking My Silence", Truthdig, 17 March 2020.
- Slava Zilba, Chris Hedges on Truthdig shutdown, 27 March 2020, updated 15 April 2020, The Canary, (audio interview with Chris Hedges at the bottom of the article)
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ericbarbour
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by ericbarbour » Wed Aug 19, 2020 9:09 pm
I'd looked at Truthdig before and usually went "meh". It started out with a bang but slowly became more tedious and non-topical, dependent on republications of AP or other content. I suspected it was due to the management squabbling.
As for why Zuade Kaufman doesn't "deserve" a BLP, your guess is as good as anyone's. There were no articles, AFDs, arguments, attempts to silence anyone, banninations, etc. Nothing.
Damn good question:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Trut ... Kaufman%3F