Charles A. Merritt, P.E. of Bayside, NY, has been honored with a recognition by Long Island Business News in its...

Political donations by News Corp., its employees and their families were evenly split between Democrats and Republicans, with President Obama the all-time leading recipient, according to a report from the Sunlight Foundation. The transparency watchdog noted Tuesday that Democrats received 51 percent of contributions while Republicans received 49 percent, despite the firm's highly publicized links to the GOP, such as a $1 million donation to the Republican Governors Association in August. The top recipients from the firm's political action committee, News America Holdings, in the 2009-10 election cycle were Reps. Nancy Pelosi (P-CA) and Howard Berman (D-CA) and Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY).

'The beancounter editors and sub-editors at many - if not most - major newspapers and broadcast outlets would sell their grandmothers to the Somali pirates for a bigger office and two steps further up the masthead, which will get them closer to where the parachutes are kept.' Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Magazine