TV Pundits Praise Hillary Clinton On Air, Fail to Disclose Financial Ties to Her Campaign

Very interesting.

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Tune into television coverage of the presidential campaign and undoubtedly you will hear from various pundits described as “former campaign strategists” and “political contributors” explaining the latest developments of the race. But in many cases, these pundits — though introduced as neutral experts on campaigns or party politics — in fact have financial ties to the candidates they praise on the air.

Several consultants who work at firms retained by Hillary Clinton’s campaign and her affiliated Super PACs appear regularly on the major television networks, frequently touting Clinton.

A review of pundits on the major networks and cable news also found one prominent pundit who often praised Jeb Bush without the network revealing her relationship with his campaign.

Journalism 101 teaches that reporters and TV news hosts must properly identify their sources and analysts,” says Jeff Cohen, an associate professor of journalism at Ithaca College. We reached out to NBC, CBS, CNN, and ABC News, but did not hear back.

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New Fed President Kashkari… Gone Rogue on Goldman or Smokescreen?

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That is the question…

Interesting times we live in. And we need to ask whether the recent unprecedented comments by Neel Kashkari, the newly appointed President of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve, to break up the big banks is genuine or too good to be true and a political smokescreen.
Former Goldman Sacks vice president Kashkari is a Republican and a former senior Treasury official under George W. Bush and President Barack Obama, who led the first TARP program. He recently declared that the present rules which are supposed to protect tax payers and the economy from bank failures fall short and the U.S. is very much at risk for another financial crisis.
His unprecedented statements are calling forth potshots and questions from all sides of the political aisle.
Regards,
Richard

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