Monday, October 4, 2010

Secret sponsors: Interest groups are spending five times as much in this election as in the last midterm election – and the identities of the money suppliers behind these groups are mostly unknown, in contrast to 2006 when 90% of the donors were disclosed. Public Citizens has a new report analyzing “fading disclosure” and the New York Times shows how hard it can be to learn who’s behind a nonprofit corporation, the vehicle of choice for 2010. PBS puts “the new wave of bare-knuckle campaigning” in the larger context of deregulation, with a short and powerful profile now playing on YouTube.