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Mika Brzezinski: Yes, Everyone at CBS News Was Liberal… Except One.
On Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski says that during her 10 years at CBS News, she knew of one George W. Bush supporter.
BBC’s Panorama, the most famous investigative TV news show of British television (the equivalent of CBS’s 60 Minutes in the US), will air a segment on sport corruption and insider trading in the world of betting, on Wednesday, July 30, 2008.
Panorama:
BBC One
Panorama
Wed 30 Jul, 9:00 pm – 10:00 pm 60mins
Nearly six years after its award-winning expose of corruption in horse racing, Panorama returns to the sport of kings to investigate the world of betting. Paul Kenyon reveals why those running the sport are so concerned about gamblers betting large sums of money on horses [...]
Would any serious newsroom invite Justin Wolfers in 2008 to report on political election prediction markets?
THAT MAY BE.
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Resident Publications:
[...] Wolfers predicted that cable news shows would turn to prediction-market experts for analysis in 2008. “My forecast is that they’ll either have someone in the studio whose job it is to track the markets, or the James Carvilles of the world will learn how to interpret the markets, and they’ll integrate [...]
Cocky Justin Wolfers wants to be invited by the TV networks on Election Day.
Resident Publications:
[...] More than 2 million shares have already been traded in presidential primary contracts on Intrade this year. John Delaney, the company’s CEO, is convinced 2008 will be the market’s biggest year yet. “Our ’08 volumes are already approaching the total for ’04 volumes —and we are still 20 months away,” he said earlier [...]
We can’t expect consumers to come to us.
It’s arrogant for any media company to assume that.
Says Quincy Smith, the president of CBS Interactive, to the Wall Street Journal. And thus, he has decided that CBS should now cross-post his videos to as many video websites as possible. Smart move.
Cross-posting is good for you: it expands the reach of your ideas. If you’re [...]
How HSX co-founder Max Keiser views the financial markets –> rigged
Al Jazeera’s Max Keiser:
Rigged Markets – Free markets are meant to be fair, but are they really?
The smallest investor in the stock market is meant to face the same odds as the richest, and that is what makes free markets free. Free markets are also meant to provide all participants with the same information about [...]
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