Jim Miklaszewski's Troubling $30,000 Speech
Did NBC Chief Pentagon Correspondent Jim Miklaszewski violated company policy by accepting $30,000 for a speaking engagement? He wasn’t even the originally planned speaker for the Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce’s Business Expo 2007 — NBC’s David Gregory had to drop out due to being sent on assignment. Putting aside our obvious question — who in their right mind would pay $30,000 for a Jim Miklaszewski talk — what does a Pentagon correspondent speak about when addressing a regional Chamber of Commerce convention?
How the Bush administration starting talking of attacking Iraq just hours after September 11th, naturally:
“His information, Miklaszewski told an audience of about 200 people, comes from some “off the record” notes taken in the White House situation room in the hours after the attacks.
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