VITAMEDIAS
The Media-Magnate Subsidy: The owners of the city’s newspapers and television stations - Rupert Murdoch, Mortimer Zuckerman, Sumner Redstone, Ted Turner and the like - are some of the wealthiest men in America. You’d think their companies could afford to pay for work-related parking for their employees. Instead, they’ve stuck the city’s taxpayers with the bill. New York’s politicians, no doubt in an admirable effort to curry favor with the press barons, have seen fit to provide free parking to journalists. In fact, there are 598 spaces in some of the prime spots in the city that are reserved for those with press credentials, according to the city’s transportation department.