NBC accused of shilling for UN

[agitpropagent9]

at the very least, it's a unfortuante conflict of interest...

http://www.aim.org/aim_column/2598_0_3_0_C/

NBC Reporter Was on U.N. Lobby Payroll
By Cliff Kincaid | February 2, 2005

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."

[PROGRESSIVE1]

1. Another BASELESS ASSAULT on the U.N!

:eyes:

[Cocoa]

7. the attacks are going to be escalating soon

when the Volcker report is published which falls short of the right-wing's anti-UN rhetoric.

They're going to smear Volcker and smear the liberal media.

[Bridget Burke]

2. What, exactly, is your problem with the United Nations?

I realize the Conservative website you've linked probably hates the UN. But this is DU.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

3. LOL...this site is as dedicated to Accuracy in Media as Fox news is

[meegbear]

4. Accuracy in Media

Getting journalistic integrety from them is like getting vitamins from a Big Mac.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

5. EARTH TO agitpropagent9..are you aware AIM is a RW site?

[K-W]

6. He has presented little but biased analysis.

So there is a book about the UN written by a UN reporter funded by some private foundations... no scandal yet.