Putney Joining Investment Bank

This just in from the Miami Herald website: Channel 10's Michael Putney has accepted a job as a media consultant for Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services, an investment bank. The kicker: He's keeping his job at Channel 10 and op-ed column for the Herald while he works to promote Ladenburg Thalmann...

By Bob Norman

April 25, 2007

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This just in from the Miami Herald website: Channel 10's Michael Putney has accepted a job as a media consultant for Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services, an investment bank.

The kicker: He's keeping his job at Channel 10 and op-ed column for the Herald while he works to promote Ladenburg Thalmann to the media. That doesn't sound kosher to me. In my view, you're either a flack or you're a journalist and never the twain shall meet.

Journalist Bob Norman has been raking the muck of South Florida for the past 25 years. His work has led to criminal cases against corrupt politicians, the ouster of bad judges from the bench, and has garnered dozens of state, regional, and national awards.

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