Click here to receive mediabistro.com's Daily Media Newsfeed via email.
"I do think that the quality which makes a man want to write and be read is essentially a desire for self-exposure and is masochistic. Like one of those guys who has a compulsion to take his thing out and show it on the street." - James Jones
Mo' Money, Mo' Problems
ThinkProgress is all over a story that Chris Matthews appears to have taken large speaking fees from a variety of associations in violation of NBC's policies.
A blogger at Seeing the Forest pulled together a lengthy report (PDF) of Matthews' recent speeches and ThinkProgress confirmed at least three of them yesterday resulted in large payments.
Howard Kurtz reported in 2002 that NBC had banned its journalists from taking speaking fees, but bloggers yesterday could not confirm that policy.
The explanation could be as simple as Matthews donated the money to charity (he and his wife, Kathleen, are big fixtures on the charity circuit in Washington), but for now the evidence seems pretty convincing.
MSNBC's Rick Kaplan denied the charges, but as ThinkProgress pointed out, he offered no proof, defense, or explanation.
Email This Post
|
Now on
|
|||||||||||||||
 |
|
|||||||||||||||
FBDC twitter feed loading...
