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So a television producer walks into a bar. He hears a singer crooning. Before long, the producer books the singer to talk about the mortgage market on his daytime talk show.
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Produced by Mike Straka, each hour of "The Strategy Room" features a host and several guests in a roundtable discussion. Maybe that’s not exactly the way things go for most bar jokes or for most talk shows. But it is standard operating procedure for Mike Straka, the producer of “The Strategy Room,” a discussion show that runs eight hours every weekday, streamed from FoxNews.com.
And thus one night at A. J. Maxwell’s, a steakhouse in Midtown Manhattan, Mr. Straka invited the lounge singer Tony D’Ville on the show. Mr. D’Ville sang a Sinatra tune and then discussed the mortgage crisis.
Fox is a latecomer to producing live news programming for the Web. CNN and ABC News have had video channels streaming online for a few years. Those webcasts mimic the format of traditional cable news channels, with a mix of anchored newscasts and specialized programs.
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Much has been written and discussed across America about the life of military families – the travel, the uncertainty, the sacrifice. But for Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner it is also a shining example of the special bonds that form between these families, and how it can grow even stronger after the battles have been fought.
Faulkner’s Dad, Ret. Lt. Col. Bob Harris, always told his daughter "there are few things worth dying for...you, your mom and our country", she recalled in an exclusive interview with Veterans Advantage. "He’s the first miracle I ever saw in my life."
Life, for Faulkner, has continued to progress as a series of miracles, from the way her father survived three tours in Vietnam, to the present day mothering of her own child, a two year-old daughter. And life as an anchor for a major news organization often provides her the privilege to get up close with those miracles.