Word: cnbc
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Covering the war from Fort Lee, N.J., just isn't good enough. That is, not if you're CNBC's GERALDO RIVERA, the theatrical journalist who longs to be the bride at every wedding, the ham in every sandwich and, lately, the mullah in every mountain. Rivera, a veteran foreign correspondent, talked his way out of his $4 million-a-year contract after parent company NBC declined to send him to Afghanistan. Fox News grabbed the talk-show host and plans to ship him out mid-November. Rivera says he has contacts with the Northern Alliance; he previously reported from...
...spokeswoman at the Peacock network told reporters, "Given that the White House did not request time on the network, we thought it was sufficient to cover the event on our cable networks." (CNBC and MSNBC will both broadcast the speech.) At CBS, there was some doubt as to the newsworthiness of the President's address. "Based upon what we've been told about the content, we feel that it's appropriate to cover it as a news event in our news coverage as opposed to live programming," a CBS spokeswoman told the Associated Press Thursday. For its part, ABC decided...
...spokesman Charles Robbins. "We are doing for radio what cable and Direct TV did for television." Most of the programming is original, but the companies also simulcast the sound from TV news channels so business travelers can tune into CNN's Lou Dobbs or Maria Bartiromo of CNBC, shown above. Several car brands--including Mercedes, BMW and Cadillac--will offer factory-installed satellite radio receivers by the end of next year...
...deposits are swelling by an estimated $120 billion a year. Not all offshore money is linked to crime or terrorism. Much of it belongs to wealthy people who are avoiding taxes in ways that often are legal under current law or--as the ads for "asset protection lawyers" on CNBC make blatantly clear--are shielding money from business partners and spouses...
...many a CNBC pundit remarked about Greenspan?s far-eyed optimism, he certainly wasn?t going to show up in front of Congress at a time like this without a smile. But his duties as economic-reassurer-in-chief aside, if Greenspan truly does have his long-term bets down on American prosperity, and history does indicate that?s pretty smart money...