public interest
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While Means has said that she would divest from investments that present a conflict of interest, Peter Lurie, a licensed physician and the president of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, told Salon that “what we need most is for her to divest herself of these flaky ideas.”
From Salon
“Cronkite thought it wouldn’t be in the public interest to be too trustful of any specific media source,” Socolow said.
From Los Angeles Times
The CPB said its board determined that without federal resources, it wouldn’t serve the public interest to continue as a “nonfunctional entity.”
Unlike those firms, Hunterbrook would also publish investigations into companies and developments that didn’t have an investment angle but that it thought were in the public interest.
The case was championed by the Thomas More Society, a public interest law firm, and allied attorneys.
From Los Angeles Times
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