{"id":581,"date":"2004-03-30T11:57:07","date_gmt":"2004-03-30T19:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2004\/03\/compensating_daniel_pearls_fam\/"},"modified":"2004-03-30T11:57:07","modified_gmt":"2004-03-30T19:57:07","slug":"compensating_daniel_pearls_fam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2004\/03\/compensating_daniel_pearls_fam.html","title":{"rendered":"COMPENSATING DANIEL PEARL&#8217;S FAMILY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>This morning The Wall Street Journal reported: &#8220;The federal <A\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.usdoj.gov\/victimcompensation\/index.html\"><B><EM><FONT\ncolor=#003399>Sept. 11 Victim Compensation&nbsp;Fund<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> rejected<br \/>\nan application from Mariane Pearl, widow of Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter<br \/>\nmurdered in 2002 by Islamic extremists in Pakistan.&#8221; But she is <A\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/03\/30\/nyregion\/30PEAR.html\"><B><EM><FONT\ncolor=#003399>still pressing her case<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A>, according to The New York<br \/>\nTimes.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>I long ago made the argument that Pearl&#8217;s death was part of 9\/11, though it did not happen on<br \/>\nthat day, and should be so honored. Let me now suggest that the Journal volunteer to pay<br \/>\nwhat&nbsp;his widow and son&nbsp;might have received from the fund&nbsp;(<A\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/03\/30\/nyregion\/30PEAR.html\"><B><EM><FONT\ncolor=#003399>nearly $2 million, tax-free<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A>).<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Preferably, the payment should come out of the pockets of <A\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.saja.org\/housekann.html\"><B><EM><FONT color=#003399>Peter Kann and<br \/>\nKaren Eliot House<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A>, the multimillionaire husband-wife team that runs<br \/>\nthe Journal and its parent company, Dow Jones. They can afford it. <\/P><br \/>\n<P>Kann, as chairman of the board, chief executive officer and editorial director of Dow Jones &#8212;<br \/>\nhe is also the former publisher of the Journal &#8212; received total compensation of $9 million over<br \/>\nfive years through 2000, according to forbes.com. His total compensation that year alone came to<br \/>\n$2.4 million, which is&nbsp;peanuts compared to&nbsp;2003.&nbsp;<\/P><br \/>\n<P>The Daily News reported last week that&nbsp;Kann received a 58 percent hike in pay, to<br \/>\n$2.1 million last year, plus an estimated $2.6 million in stock options, for total compensation of<br \/>\n$4.7 million. House, who took over from her husband as publisher of the Journal in July 2002,<br \/>\n&#8220;upped her pay to $877,000&#8221; last year,&nbsp;a raise of 32 percent, the Daily News reported.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>The Journal has already set up a fund to&nbsp;help Daniel Pearl&#8217;s widow and young son. But<br \/>\nit&#8217;s not enough. Further helping to compensate them for their loss by paying what the 9\/11 victim<br \/>\nfund would have paid&nbsp;might go a long way to earning some of the good will Kann and<br \/>\nHouse have lost&nbsp;among the overwhelming majority of the Journal staff. <\/P><br \/>\n<P>Their&nbsp;hard-nosed attempt to reduce health benefits and hold down pay raises<br \/>\nhave&nbsp;made them look like&nbsp;nasty penny-pinchers and worse<br \/>\nto&nbsp;Journal&nbsp;reporters, who&nbsp;are currently in negotiations with the company for a<br \/>\nnew union contract. So I wouldn&#8217;t hold my breath. But maybe&nbsp;Kann and House<br \/>\nwill&nbsp;prove me wrong.&nbsp;Showing good will to the Pearl family would certainly help<br \/>\nearn them&nbsp;the public&#8217;s good will.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning The Wall Street Journal reported: &#8220;The federal Sept. 11 Victim Compensation&nbsp;Fund rejected an application from Mariane Pearl, widow of Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter murdered in 2002 by Islamic extremists in Pakistan.&#8221; But she is still pressing her case, according to The New York Times. 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