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Columbia Univ Did Accept Assad Aide, Barbara Walters Pulled Strings

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Columbia Univ Did Accept Assad Aide, Barbara Walters Pulled Strings

By: Sydney Smith

June 09, 2012 02:55 PM EST

As we wrote earlier this month, Barbara Walters apologized after leaked e-mails showed she pulled strings to try to get Sheherazad Jaafari, an aide to Syria's president Bashar al-Assad, into Columbia University and a...

Barbara Walters Apologizes for Conflict in Offering Job, College Help to Assad Adviser

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Barbara Walters Apologizes for Conflict in Offering Job, College Help to Assad Adviser

By: Sydney Smith

June 06, 2012 05:00 AM EST

Barbara Walters apologized for pulling strings to get "the daughter of Syria's UN ambassador" Bashar Jaafari, a CNN internship and a spot at Columbia University, the UK Telegraph reported. The...

Montreal Gazette Questions Lines between Reporting and Entertainment

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Montreal Gazette Questions Lines between Reporting and Entertainment

By: Sydney Smith

October 14, 2011 06:20 AM EST

The Montreal Gazette's Misty Narris commented on journalists who cross over to entertainment in a recent column. Narris highlighted the case of CNN's Anderson Cooper, who both reports news for CNN and crosses...