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COMMENTS: Sharyl Builds Her Beat
Sharyl Attkisson at CBS has begun to make the Treasury Department's TARP bailout of the financial industry her personal beat. Attkisson's report on Barack Obama's lobbying on Capitol Hill for approval of the second TARP installment of $350bn before Inauguration Day marks her sixth TARP story since Election Day. "It is not an easy sales job," she reflected, "after the first half went to banks instead of mortgage relief." She pointed to the latest money merger as a case in point. The Smith Barney brokerage house will now be jointly operated by Morgan Stanley and Citigroup. The former has received $10bn in TARP funds; the latter $45bn.
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