The New York Times Looks Closer at Bloomberg View

Bloomberg View, the op-ed venture from Michael Bloomberg, got a close examination in the New York Times yesterday, and we might as well get the staggering stat out of the way now: Bloomberg is paying each of its top editors – David Shipley and James P. Rubin – about $500,000 a year.

Okay, deep breaths everyone. All set? Moving on…

The article discusses Bloomberg’s motives for creating the project, and casts a shadow of doubt on our theory that he was using Bloomberg View to strengthen an eventual run at the presidency:

The mayor, a keen student of power, is privately conceding to friends that he will not be a candidate for president, a position he covets, and he is coming to grips with the reality that philanthropy, even on the sky-is-the-limit scale that he is planning, will not be enough to make him a potent force in national and international affairs.

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