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Jim Cramer Most famous stock-picker of all time. Magna cum laude, Harvard,a "government major. Wrote for Tallahassee News Democrat and L.

The magazine has described Shnayerson as its de facto environmental editor, because he writes frequently on the topic, but he also has written about the likelihood of hacking of electronic voting machines, Halliburton's war-related profits, anti-terrorism data mining, global warming skeptics and other political topics.

As a contributing editor, I write four stories a year.

One might be about the environment or related to politics; the others might be about anything from a media subject to a fashion designer.

This is different from a newspaper writer who covers a political beat, and to me tips the balance in favor of my right, as a citizen, to make any legal political contribution I choose to make. A blogger called these contributions to the attention of Adcock's bosses, Tony Ridder and Clark Hoyt.

And their explanations, from ‘Yikes!’ to ‘They’re all in somebody’s pocket’

Hoyt is now the public editor at The New York Times. The bureau, then part of Knight Ridder, was known for its reporting that called into question the rationales for the war in Iraq. Ridder both expressed regret that I had misunderstood the policy and had been hurt by it.

I had discussed my donations on more than one occasion with more than one other editor here; I'd never made any secret of them, not knowing I wasn't supposed to be doing it.

After this emerged, I sure wished that one of those editors had told me — or even told my bosses — so I could have stopped sooner. Roughly, I recall it saying that employees are permitted to engage in political activity but that if there's a question of a conflict of interest they should discuss it with their supervisors, or something like that.

I copy-edit stories and compile our news budgets and other communications with our newspapers, and it did not occur to me that my Washington bosses considered those functions a conflict of interest with making campaign donations.

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There I mostly worked in the features section, so I was confident there was no conflict of interest. I probably should have rethought that when I came to Washington, but I simply read the ethics policy, saw it was the same one I was used to, and my husband and I continued making our occasional donations.NBC Nightly News (titled as NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt for its weeknight broadcasts since June 22, ) is the flagship daily evening television news program for NBC News, the news division of the NBC television network in the United States.

First aired on August 3, , the program is currently the most watched network newscast in the United States, with an average of million.

Reporters include Darren Gersh, Diane Estabrook, Erika Miller, Suzanne Pratt, Stephanie Dhue, Scott Gurvey, and Dana Bate. NBR was first broadcast in , and was hosted by anchors Linda O'Bryon and Merwin Sigale, with assistance from Paul Kangas. It wasn't until that Nightly Business Report began airing across the United States.1/10(4).

Aug 28,  · Tonight on Nightly Business Report, a wild week on Wall Street with massive stock swings and big gains and losses. In fact – all in – the Dow has traveled more than 10, points this week. The lessons learned from a crazy few days.

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Nightly Business Report PBS August 21, amam PDT A long-running weeknight business-news magazine that includes market reports, company information, CEO interviews and economic commentary. `NBR' began as a local broadcast in Miami in , and when it went national in , its roster of commentators included future Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan.

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Links of Interest. Unreliable Sources: A Guide to Detecting Bias in News Media [Lee] on initiativeblog.com *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Committed, eloquent writings that plumb teh psychological and political complexities of mass-mediated experience.

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