"Cokie Watch": Paid Appearances and Conflict of Interest
Roberts became the object of Chicago Tribune James Warren's regular column feature called "Cokie Watch," when Warren discovered the exorbitant speaking/appearance fees Roberts received from a variety of organizations, groups or companies. Warren saw Roberts (and other Washington insider journalists) who took this kind of money as creating an unprofessional conflict of interest that would not allow them to do their jobs of holding the powerful to account. There are some 75 entries in Warren's column's for the Cokie Watch feature over 5 1/2 years.
Read more about this topic: Cokie Roberts, Controversies
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