Barbara Walters Apologizes For Attempting To Get Assad Aide An Internship At CNN, Place At Columbia

Barbara Walters Apologizes For Attempting To Get Assad Aide An Internship At CNN, Place At Columbia: "Barbara Walter's always like to proclaim that they don't do "checkbook" journalism, the practice of paying for interviews but this particular tactic of making a special effort of getting an internship for an Assad aide should be the equivalent to this checkbook practice. If it wasn't for the release of these emails, Barbara wouldn't have been exposed as the less than honest maven of journalism she likes to boast about.How much is this internship worth, $30K, $50K, $75K? If Barbara would have succeeded in getting this aide an internship, she would also have displaced an American form that job as well. It seems like this is more to it than meets the eye and an investigation must be conducted to see if Barbara has done this before. All interviews should be tainted with the smell of a buyout by means of trade or bartering."

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