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Lessons In "Journalism" From Mike Barnicle

By Big Tent Democrat

So Media Matters pointed out that when Mike Barnicle complained about a cap on compensation for bank executives, he failed to disclose that his wife is an executive with Bank of America. Barnicle, who in the past has been brazen enough to lecture on journalism to bloggers, did not appreciate having his most recent journalistic lapse discussed:

Barnicle responds to Media Matters: "[P]eople out there with time on their hands who send me e-mails saying, you've gotta come clean ... because your wife works at Bank of America. ... I'm not getting divorced over this"

Not the point Mike. Though I do think NBC should seriously consider a journalistic divorce from Mike Barnicle. But that would require NBC to actually care about its journalism. They never have before.

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Full post as published by TalkLeft on February 05, 2009 (boomark / email).