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Amy Jacobson
General Assignment Reporter

UPDATED: 1:53 pm CDT July 26, 2006
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Amy Jacobson joined NBC5 News as a general assignment reporter in August 1996.

In her 10 years in Chicago, Jacobson has covered major assignments. She was in the locker room when the Chicago White Sox won the Pennant and the World Series. She also covered the Salt Lake Olympics.

As one of the most distinguished and well-respected reporters in the market, Jacobson has covered several local stories that have been picked up by the NBC network. She has been a featured reporter on the Today Show four times.

Prior to joining NBC5, Jacobson was a general assignment reporter at the Fox Affiliate WJBK-TV in Detroit, Mich. She worked at the ABC Affiliate KVIA-TV in El Paso, Texas, where duties included general assignment reporter, assignment editor and substitute producer/anchor.

Jacobson also spent time at KOLD-TV in Tucson, Ariz., where she was a morning anchor/producer, general assignment reporter and photographer/editor.

Jacobson started her career in journalism in 1992 at KSAX-TV in Alexandria, Minn., as a morning anchor/producer and general assignment reporter. Jacobson held an internship during college at KGAN-TV in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

A native of Mt. Prospect, Jacobson graduated Phi Beta Kappa from The University of Iowa with a Bachelor of Arts degree in broadcasting and film. Jacobson married Jaime Anglada in 2002. They have two boys, ages 2 and 1.

Drop Amy a line: amy.jacobson@nbc.com.

LOL! I agree. Alone, Steve Dahl can be hard to take and Garry Meier can be a jerk at times. Though, when they're together, they become very entertaining.

Maybe I'm interested because listening to Steve and Garry bring back memories of my youth. I have to say that some of the best and funniest radio commentary that I've ever heard came from Steve and Garry during the Gary Dotson/Cathleen Crowell media frenzy.

Here is a snippet from an interesting article:

"First, the reported "grosses" are not those of the studios but those of the movie houses. The movie houses take these sums and keep their share (or what they claim is their share)—which can amount to more than 50 percent of the original box-office total. Consider, for example, Touchstone's Gone in 60 Seconds, which had a $242 million box-office gross. From this impressive haul, the theaters kept $129.8 million and remitted the balance to Disney's distribution arm, Buena Vista. After paying mandatory trade dues to the MPAA, Buena Vista was left with $101.6 million. From this amount, it repaid the marketing expenses that had been advanced—$13 million for prints so the film could open in thousands of theatres; $10.2 million for the insurance, local taxes, custom clearances, and other logistical expenses; and $67.4 million for advertising. What remained of the nearly quarter-billion-dollar "gross" was a paltry $11 million. (And that figure does not account for the $103.3 million that Disney had paid to make the movie in the first place.)"

http://www.slate.com/id/2118819

Howard Stern

I agree with you. Unfortunately, I think Howard Stern has become lazy during the past few years and has relied on sex instead of comedy in order to titillate listeners.

Without the constraints of the FCC, I believe his satellite radio show will end up 90% pornography and 10 % comedy.

How did they fit that much ego in one room?

Howard Stern is a self proclaimed narcissist. I think Bill O. may even possess a few narcissistic traits.

"Proposed Amended Criteria for the Narcissistic Personality Disorder

Feels grandiose and self-important (e.g., exaggerates accomplishments, talents, skills, contacts, and personality traits to the point of lying, demands to be recognised as superior without commensurate achievements);

Is obsessed with fantasies of unlimited success, fame, fearsome power or omnipotence, unequalled brilliance (the cerebral narcissist), bodily beauty or sexual performance (the somatic narcissist), or ideal, everlasting, all-conquering love or passion;

Firmly convinced that he or she is unique and, being special, can only be understood by, should only be treated by, or associate with, other special or unique, or high-status people (or institutions);

Requires excessive admiration, adulation, attention and affirmation – or, failing that, wishes to be feared and to be notorious (Narcissistic Supply);

Feels entitled. Demands automatic and full compliance with his or her unreasonable expectations for special and favourable priority treatment;

Is "interpersonally exploitative", i.e., uses others to achieve his or her own ends;

Devoid of empathy. Is unable or unwilling to identify with, acknowledge, or accept the feelings, needs, preferences, priorities, and choices of others;

Constantly envious of others and seeks to hurt or destroy the objects of his or her frustration. Suffers from persecutory (paranoid) delusions as he or she believes that they feel the same about him or her and are likely to act similarly;

Behaves arrogantly and haughtily. Feels superior, omnipotent, omniscient, invincible, immune, "above the law", and omnipresent (magical thinking). Rages when frustrated, contradicted, or confronted by people he or she considers inferior to him or her and unworthy."

Source Link

NPR Show about NO hurricane risk:

New Orleans' Hurricane Risk, Pt. I
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1150366

New Orleans' Hurricane Risk, Pt. II
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1150367

I agree.

Thanks for the info!

"ride out on a horse with no name"

America-My favorite music group from the seventies.

"However, this being a topic of such concern to everyone, what I would really like to see is a detailed list of specific "corporate giants" who haved moved US jobs to other countries, including how many jobs were moved, which countries they went to, and whether the companies also created any new jobs here (like a "net" gain or loss of US employees in all jobs, per company"

I don't have all of the specifics, but this is what I was able to find. Exporting America

Corporations exporting jobs overseas.

3Com 3M A Accenture Adaptec Adobe Systems AMD Aetna Agere Systems Agilent Tech. AIG Alamo Rent A Car Albertson's Alliance Semiconductor Allstate Alpha Thought Global American Express American Standard Amphenol Corp. Andrew Corp. AOL Applied Materials AT&T AT&T Wireless A.T. Kearney Avery Dennison B Bank of America Bank One Bechtel BellSouth Best Buy Black & Decker BMC Software Boeing C Capital One Carrier Cendant Cerner Corporation Charles Schwab ChevronTexaco Ciena Cigna Circuit City, Inc. Cisco Systems Citigroup Coca-Cola Comcast Holdings Computer Associates Computer Sciences Corporation Continental Airlines Convergys Cooper Tire & Rubber Cooper Tools COVAD Comm. CSX Cummins D Dell Computer Delta Air Lines Direct TV Discover Document Sciences Corp. DuPont E Earthlink Eastman Kodak Eaton Corporation EDS Electroglas Electronics for Imaging Eli Lilly EMC Emerson Electric Ernst & Young Expedia ExxonMobil F Fedders Corporation Fidelity Investments First American Title Ins. First Data Fluor Ford Motor Franklin Mint G Gateway General Electric GlobespanVirata Goldman Sachs Goodrich Google Greenpoint Mortgage Guardian Life Insurance H The Hartford Financial Services Group HealthAxis Hewitt Associates Hewlett-Packard HSN I IBM IndyMac Bancorp Intel Intl. Paper Intuit ITT Educational Services J Jacuzzi JDS Uniphase Johnson & Johnson JPMorgan Chase Juniper Networks K KANA Software Kaiser Permanente Keane KLA-Tencor L Lehman Brothers Levi Strauss Lexmark International Lifescan Lillian Vernon Linksys Lockheed Martin Lowe's Lucent M Maritz Marshall Fields Mattel Maytag McDATA Corporation Mellon Bank Merrill Corporation Merrill Lynch Metasolv MetLife Microsoft Monsanto Morgan Stanley Motorola N Nabco National City Corporation NCR Corporation Network Associates Newell Rubbermaid New York Life Insurance Co. Northwest Airlines O Office Depot ON Semiconductor Oracle Otis Elevator Co. Owens Corning P palmOne Parker-Hannifin Parsons E&C Pearson Digital Learning Pericom Semiconductor Perot Systems Pfizer Planar Systems Portal Software Pratt & Whitney Primus Telecom Procter & Gamble Providian Financial Prudential Insurance Q Qwest Comm. R Rainbow Technologies Raytheon Aircraft Regence Group Rohm & Haas RR Donnelley & Sons S SAIC SBC Comm. SEI Investments Siebel Systems Sikorsky Solectron Sovereign Bancorp Sprint Sprint PCS State Farm Insurance StorageTek SunTrust Banks SurePrep The Sutherland Group Sykes Enterprises T Target Tecumseh Telcordia TeleTech Texas Inst. Thrivent Financial for Lutherans Time Warner Triquint Semiconductor TRW Automotive Tyco Electronics Tyco Intl. U Unisys United Online United Tech. V VA Software Veritas Verizon W Wachovia Bank Washington Group Intl. Washington Mutual West Corporation Y Yahoo!

"A true, severe carbo addict's metabolism is not fooled by diet foods. A sweet taste in the mouth can set off a hyperinsulin reaction as easily as cake can. Diet sodas have the same effect on me as a cookie."

Same here. I have a diet soda and twenty minutes later I'm looking for something to eat. The diet works best for me when I stick to plain old water. Matter of fact, as I write this response, I'm feeling hungry because I just finished a cup of coffee sweetened with Sweet 'n Low.

I've been on the diet for three years and have maintained my goal weight with little problem.

"Is this the New World Order?"

Interesting you should say that. I recently listened to an interview about the NWO that the late Father Malachi Martin gave to a radio interviewer. If you're interested in listening to the interview, you can find it here:

http://dukenightvision.home.comcast.net