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> "Fred Liken" <nothanks@toocoolforschool.com> wrote in message
> news:42f0dca4$0$2471$bb4e3ad8@newscene.com...
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> Geraldo started with real credibility and later slid into tabloid-style
> pap. He's hardly a quack, though. He has a Juris Doctor from Brooklyn
> Law, and has worked with the N.Y. D.A.'s office and a poverty law program.
> He also holds a post-graduate degree in journalism from Columbia.
>
> As a journalist some of his early stories resulted in significant
> improvement in people's lives. Most notably the residents of Willowbrook
> State School who were kept in deplorable conditions until Geraldo did a
> sensational story regarding their plight (he snuck in the middle of the
> night with a cameraman and filmed residents living in the most deplorable
> conditions imaginable). He went on to positions with Good Morning
> America, World News Tonight and 20/20. Among the important stories he
> covered were the effects of Agent Orange, drug company price gouging, and
> Defense Department rip-offs.
>
> Geraldo's a whore, not a quack.
>