Article: The Record, Stockton, Calif., Mike Klocke column.

Byline: Mike Klocke

Jun. 24--NBC News is the bastion of journalistic ethics that gave the public such notables as Chet Huntley, David Brinkley and Tom Brokaw.

Now the peacocks are reportedly going to ante up $1 million to hear Paris Hilton chortle about life in the clink?

Network executives deny they've made the offer, which would have Paree giving her first post-incarceration sit-down to NBC's Meredith Vieira.

But it was reported in the New York Post, which is owned by that Rupert Murdoch fellow who wants to buy Dow Jones and Co. Inc. and the Wall Street Journal (and by extrapolation, The Record).

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