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July 19, 2007

Back in the day, when I first worked at CNN as a writer/producer, I had to deal with the fact that one of our field reporters insisted his full name be used when we introduced a "stand-up" piece or a video package in which he was involved. It was irritating because his name was/is James Allen Miklaszewski and that's how he wanted to be identified. Not "Jim," not "James," but, the full load: James Allen Miklaszewski. We writers just chalked it up to arrogant egotism and wrote it the way he wanted it written.

Fast forward. JAM left CNN and went to work for NBC. He worked his way up the ladder until he reached the lofty peak of "chief Pentagon correspondent." But, NBC would have none of the "refer to me as James Allen Miklaszewski" nonsense. It was Jim from the get-go, and Jim became a card-carrying, extremely well-paid member of the corrupt, dis-informative, obfuscating, shameful branch of Mainstream Media that is so responsible for the gross ignorance of the public, television news.

Fast forward again. So what does Jim now do in his spare time? When he is not whoring for NBC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of one of the planet's top manufacturers of weaponry of all sorts; a purveyor of death on a massive scale, General Electric?

Well, to be blunt, he has taken his form of media prostitution to the street where he can suck up even more loose corporate cash, the street in this case being the Greater Providence (R.I.) Chamber of Commerce.

As reported by mediamatters.org:

"This spring, NBC chief Pentagon correspondent Jim Miklaszewski took $30,000 from the Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce to address its Business EXPO 2007. During his talk, Miklaszewski attacked a prominent presidential candidate.
As Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz pointed out in 2002, professional journalists accepting fees for speaking engagements is widely frowned upon by the media and a "number of news organizations including, ABC and NBC, banned the practice."

Just last year, Media Matters for America noted the apparent conflict of interest and violation of NBC's ban on paid speaking gigs when Chris Matthews received "tens of thousands of dollars in exchange for delivering speeches to corporate interest groups." Controversy surrounding Matthews' speaking fees prompted then MSNBC president Rick Kaplan to clarify that NBC policy prohibited anchors from personally accepting speaking fees and anyone who did so "would risk being fired."

But as The Providence Journal reported, Jim Miklaszewski not only took $30,000 from the Chamber of Commerce in apparent violation of his employer's policy on paid speaking engagements, the NBC correspondent then proceeded to call presidential candidate and former Sen. John Edwards (D-NC) a "loser" for attempting to defend a pricey haircut.

It's reasonable to assume that John Edwards' economic policies -- his focus on poverty and health care and the growing gap between rich and poor, and his proposed solutions to these problems -- aren't very popular at the Chamber of Commerce. Edwards, for example, has said he would repeal the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans in order to pay for his health care proposal, while the U.S. Chamber of Commerce lists making the Bush tax cuts permanent first among its tax policy priorities. And in 2006, the U.S. Chamber gave nearly five times as much money to Republicans as to Democrats.

Put simply, an NBC correspondent took $30,000 from the business lobby to give a speech -- then, during the speech, he attacked a candidate whose policies the lobby opposes. This is deeply unethical, to say the least.

As Edwards embarks on his poverty tour this week, it's fitting we call upon the media to stop their endless stream of personal, negative, and often absurd attacks against progressives and return their focus to where it belongs: the issues. As a respected and influential journalist, Miklaszewski has a reputation to uphold as a serious and objective source of information on air and off. Calling a presidential candidate a "loser" over a haircut would be absurd enough. Doing so after taking $30,000 from special interests opposed to that candidate is scandalous.

For a journalist to make such comments is irresponsible -- to be paid to make them is inexcusable.

I'm urging you to please contact NBC and ask it to address Miklaszewski's apparent violation of their policy on paid speaking engagements. Let NBC officials know you think the public deserves a meaningful debate on ideas and policies, not an endless litany of negative anecdotes and personal attacks. Demand that NBC make public its full ethics policy for reporters. Holding networks and journalists like NBC and Miklaszewski accountable for their actions will help raise the bar and bring about more quality coverage of the 2008 presidential campaign."

It just never stops, does it . . .?

- MDM

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