The Ford Foundation is giving the Los Angeles Times a $1 million grant over two years to hire five new reporters "who will focus on the Vietnamese, Korean and other immigrant communities, the California prison system, the border region and Brazil."
Imagine the reaction if, say, the Scaife Foundation or the Bradley Foundation gave the New York Times a $1 million grant to hire five reporters to focus on uncovering corruption in the Obama administration, or at the United Nations. Who knew that coverage in a mainstream newspaper could be bought so cheaply?