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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...

(Accused of writing pro-U.N. book after getting Ted Turner Grant) An NBC correspondent to the U.N. denies a conflict of interest stemming from a grant she received from Ted Turner's United Nations Foundation to help fund a book favorable to the world body. Among other things, Linda Fasulo's "An Insider's Guide to the U.N." whitewashes U.N. chief Kofi Annan's role in the 1994 Rwanda genocide, charges Cliff Kincaid, editor of Accuracy in Media, which first reported the grant. AIM, the media watchdog, is calling on Fasulo to reveal how much money she has taken from Turner's foundation. Kincaid says the...