Jodi Rave Column: TIME's dirty dealing

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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2002

"Imagine this news headline: "Dirty Dealing: U.S. corporations are making millions for investors and providing little to the poor."

How would the business world react?

Aren't U.S. corporations expected to make money for their investors? Isn't that expected in a capitalistic society? And while businesses create jobs, do we expect them to solve this country's poverty problems?

So imagine much of Indian Country's reaction to Time Magazine's Dec. 16 cover story and this Internet headline: "Dirty Dealing: Indian Casinos are making millions for their investors and providing little to the poor."

The story is part of Time's "Indian Casinos: Wheel of Misfortune" series expect Part II in the Dec. 22 issue. The articles attempt to explore the New Money infiltrating infant tribal economies. Guess what? Tribal casinos have made a few tribes -- and a few non-Native investors -- swimmingly rich. What's more? This country still has "poor Indians."

This isn't new news.

The writers, two Pulitzer-winning investigative journalists, have had better days. Their series is mostly rehashed information, much of it already told by tribes themselves."

Get the Story:
Jodi Rave: Magazine distorts tribal casinos (The Lincoln Journal Star 12/17)