"None of your business": Albany Times Union hypocrisy

"The Issue: Too often, government keeps secrets for no apparent good reason [...] Tuesday is Election Day. It's a good day to remind government, from town hall to the state Capitol, who's in charge."

"None of your business." Albany Times Union. November 3, 2013: D1 cols 2-4.

Typical Albany Yellow Journal: the publisher George Randolph Hearst III reminding politicians who's in charge (while pretending to subscribers and voters that they matter): filthy rich hypocrites like himself.

Why do UAlbany, the City of Albany, etc. ignore questions, FOIL requests, even calls for help from the public? Could be because Hearst's President of the Board of Directors of the UAlbany Foundation, among other things. Owning politicians and law enforcement is easy when your late father was one of Forbes' 400 (Filthy) Richest Americans and your ancestor was the red-baiting, brownshirt-chummy, yellow journalist - altogether colorful in every wrong way - William Randolph Hearst, no?

That UAlbany, that the City of Albany, Albany County, New York State, do nothing about UAlbany's Clery Act violations, its threats to victims, witnesses, whistleblowers in connection with anything that has to do with athletics (or anything important to Hearst; tobacco money, pseudoscience, etc.) when Hearst profiteers off of UAlbany's vain and dangerous athletic ambitions (to emulate Joe Paterno and Penn State) at the expense of academic integrity, campus security, and the safety of students, faculty, staff, and visitors to the UAlbany campus (including VIPs like President Clinton and President Obama)... well.

William Randolph Hearst: "A man as low and mean as I can picture" - Governor Al Smith

Journalistic ethics: a matter best ignored by Hearst journalists?

Tobacco, the Times Union, and conflicts of interest

                "Hearst in War, Hearst in Peace, Hearst in Every News Release,

                Spreads His Filth and Desolation to Increase His Circulation."

Anti-Hearst Examiner. August 1935. (quoted in Pizzitola, Louis. Hearst Over Hollywood: Power, Passion, and Propaganda in the Movies. NY: Columbia University Press, 2002. 347.)

The Truth, Hearst