Posted on 02/03/2005 2:22:35 PM PST by rightalien
Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post wrote a story the other day about how MSNBC President Rick Kaplan has put more NBC into MSNBC. Since Rick Kaplan was named president of MSNBC a year ago, Kurtz reported, his colleagues say that one of his main achievements has been "forging a tighter partnership with NBC News." The assumption is that NBC is a valuable resource. But on one of the hottest stories around, the U.N. corruption scandal, NBC has been out to lunch. Why? Its U.N. reporter has been on the payroll of the U.N. lobby.
Linda Fasulo, the U.N. correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC, has written a pro-U.N. book, An Insider's Guide to the U.N., which reads like the U.N. paid for it. Actually, the pro-U.N. lobby paid for it. In a monstrous conflict of interest for a supposed straight news reporter, Fasulo acknowledges Ted Turner's U.N. Foundation and Better World Campaign for "their generous financial support" of her book project. She also thanks the Rockefeller Brothers Fund "for helping to fund the project."
The book is about "one of the finest and most important governing bodies," she says. Of the U.N. chief, she writes like a school girl with a crush. "It is hard to find anyone who can mount a serious criticism of [Kofi] Annan's performance as Secretary General," she claims. His performance is so "impressive" that she wonders if a "cult of personality" has risen up around him. One U.S. official is reported to be "astonished by just how good a Secretary General Kofi Annan has been."
The book is also full of praise for the pro-U.N. lobby, including the groups that made the book possible.
(Excerpt) Read more at aim.org ...
Ahh, revenge is sweet.
Doesn't FReep much, does she.
Unlike the Williams deal, this is probably ok with the left.
I'm sure Maureen Dowd's next column will address this, right?
But she agrees with the UN program. She would have pimped for the UN without the pay.....
Hard to see much of anything other than Kofi's backside with this degree of Kofi a**-kissing.
Bet she wasn't the only reporter....
Sure, it's their beloved UN!
US out of UN and UN out of US ~ Now!
I said when the Williams story broke that we will find out that the left is in hock waaay deep to this kind of payments. And the silence from most of the liberal media will be deafening.
Tip of the iceberg.
Absolutely. I just meant that all of the non-stories about columnists supposedly being "paid" by the Bush administration - of course, it turns out that they weren't paid at all, but what do facts matter - can be very easily turned around to reveal leftists who really were paid to write their stories.
Hands up - who is surprised by this?
What is particularly nauseating about the criticism of Armstrong Williams' fee for advocacy is that the Dems and left leaning institutions, like the UN, have been getting free advocacy from NBC,ABC,CBS,PBS & CNN for decades.
The UN is past corrupt..it is a lawless Pseudo-Nation controlled by anti-American special interest groups. When do UN flunkies start packing boxes and stamping passports? And no, Bill Clinton as Secretary General would be one more catastrophe.
Turn about is fair play.
I'm not interested in revenge. I'm interested in truth. Every journalist with a little racket on the side needs to be exposed, along with everyone who funds those little rackets.
Not only is this woman ON the payroll of a pro-UN lobby, her writings about the UN seem to reflect those on someone ON illegal narcotics.
She has no clue if she thinks that Kofi Annan is a great leader and the UN is a great institution.
It's going to be a Better World when our trusted news sources are lobbyists paid by the people they are reporting on?
In what specific way will it be a Better World?
Don't miss this one.
To contact the author and NBC "reporter" Email: linda.fasulo@nbc.com
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