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 ...
Linda Fasulo is a journalist who specializes in the United Nations and U.S. Foreign policy. She has been the Special Correspondent to the United Nations for NBC News and MSNBC for the past five years, and she writes a column for MSNBC on the internet.
Fasulo is also a special correspondent for U.S. News & World Report Magazine, and her news reports on global issues have been heard several times a week on National Public Radio (NPR) since 1990.
She is the author of Representing America: Experiences of the U.S. Diplomats at the UN, and is currently writing a handbook on the United Nations for Yale University Press.
A frequent speaker and moderator on international issues, she has spoken at universities including Yale, Columbia and the University of Chicago, and to public policy groups such as UNA-USA, the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia and the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations. She is well prepared to speak on may UN-related issues such as U.S. policy, women's issues, and the latest international news.
Fasulo is a board member of the Overseas Press Club, a former officer of the UN Correspondents Association and a member of the Women's Media Group.
NBC correspondent pimps for the U.N and coffee anon. Armstrong williams promotes NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND.. and guessd who is the criminal.
I haven't heard anybody on FOX address this issue.
Well, well.......how does this compare to Armstrong Jones and what's her face that took a paultry sum to promote No Child Left Behind.
Exactly!
Actually this was all a clever ploy by Karl Rove. First the Armstrong Williams story is leaked and the liberals pontificate all over it, then the rug is pulled out from under them by revealing all the real payola that the MSM has been doing for years. Anyway that's my guess.
Thanks, Howlin!
Karl the Roving gnome;)
reminds me of the Scarlet Pimpernell
They seek him here,
They seek him there
Those Frenchies seek him everywhere
Is he in Heaven or is he in Hell
That damned elusive Pimpernell
Holy mackeral. Well, I don't know how many are being paid by the UN, but a lot of reporters are wearing kneepads for them.
Except starving Iraqis, mutilated Hutus and Tutsis, denizens of Darfur, and Haiti..
Can anyone be surprised at the corruption in the UN, seeing how closely they are tied to Democrats.
FASULO, Linda
Office: Room 362, United Nations, NY 10017
Phone: (212) 664 7810;
Fax: (212) 935-4215
linda.fasulo@nbc.com
Pimping by misrepresentation as Ms. Fasulo did is a far cry from advancing a program that one already agrees with.
International Corespondent Linda Fasulo Shares Experiences with United Nations
http://www2.davidson.edu/news/news_archives/archives00/00.10fasuloreview.html
ooh ooh I know where she can find one
BUT first she'll have to take her head out of her...
Anyway, you get the point.
The U.S. a "governing body?"
In your dreams, Sweetie, and the nightmares of every patriotic American and lover of liberty.
Twice people took me seriously. Should haved added 'sarcasm'.
She is an oxygen thief..
Sorry 'bout that.
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