Don't know. People are now wondering whether the same rules apply to CNBC as well. If GE (who makes ludicrous donations of their own) says they apply uniformly to all their "news" properties, there are going to be a whole lot of unemployed on air talent.
Of course I don't watch news or opinion on TV, so it doesn't particularly bother me one way or another, but it will still be interesting to see what happens. Judah On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Vivec <[email protected]> wrote: > > Did he blab about the donations and make them public? > > On 5 November 2010 18:48, Judah McAuley <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> I'm curious to see what NBC says about this as it goes on. According >> to policy, donations have to be "cleared" by the organization before >> you can make them. So is it the donations or the fact that Olbermann >> didn't get them cleared the problem? Joe Scarborough has donated money >> to Republicans and then had those same candidates on his show after >> making those donations. Were those donations cleared by MSNBC? Or was >> it just a double standard? >> >> It will be interesting to see how it goes. >> >> Judah >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:331268 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
