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Newsweek, October, 2007 by Johnnie L. Roberts And Ashley R. Harris
Rupert Murdoch serves Wall Street to the masses with banter, beer and breasts. Watch out, CNBC.
“Happy Hour” isn’t your usual cable business-news show. Host Cody Willard is a 35-year-old former hedge-fund manager who’s hipster handsome, with shoulder-length hair parted down the middle. Anchoring the 5 p.m. show from a stool at the Bull and Bear bar inside Manhattan’s Waldorf-Astoria hotel, Willard is casually imprecise as he discusses the numbers. But you kind of get the general idea anyway. His costar, Rebecca Gomez, perches perkily next to him, as flirty camera angles and naughty hemlines threaten to spill her Victoria’s Secrets. On one recent episode, the conversation turns to a hot new business, a kind of endowment fund for women that gets its money from men. The...
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