Jossip makes a good point: The Dangerous Liaison betweeen Telemundo's Mirthala Salinas and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is a lot like the Dangerous Liaison between CNBC's Maria Bartiromo and former then-Citigroup big cheese Todd Thomson.
Thomson, of course, was pushed out of his job. And who knows what the LA voters will do with Villaraigosa. But we know that Salinas and Bartiromo are both still on the payroll of their respective companies, both of which are subsidiaries of NBC-Universal, helped by Jeff Zucker. And Zucker, of course, doesn't seem very interested in putting an end to such un-professional hanky-pankying--indeed, company flacks defend their wayward girls. (And of course, MSNBC is also under Zucker's domain, and yet Jeff doesn't seem very interested in policing a wayward boy, Joe Scarborough's behavior.)
But wait a second! NBC-U is, in turn, wholly owned by General Electric. It's hard to imagine that this such looking-the-other-way is good strategy for GE, a publicity-conscious international conglomerate, with lots of activist shareholders and at-the-ready critics and gadflies watching its every move. I mean, GE has a lot or exposure, and is a Deep Pocket worthy of the most enterprising trial lawyer.
And yet the other Jeff, GE CEO Jeff Immelt seems uninterested, too, in this budding scandal-cluster within his company.
