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Gerald Michael Rivera[1] (born July 4, 1943), known by his television name of Geraldo Rivera or simply Geraldo, is an American television journalist, attorney, and former talk show host. He is known to have an affinity for dramatic, high-profile stories, and issues that are divisive in nature. Rivera hosts the newsmagazine program Geraldo at Large, and appears regularly on Fox News Channel.
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Geraldo Rivera joined Fox News Channel in November 2001 as a war correspondent, hitting the headlines once again with a series of high profile interviews and reports from Afghanistan and the Middle East. Although perhaps most widely known in the UK for his talk show The Geraldo Rivera Show, he is ... one of America's best-known and most contentious investigative journalists. A veteran foreign correspondent, Rivera has been on the frontlines in virtually every international conflict since 1973 and has received more than 170 awards for journalism.
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Geraldo Rivera joined FOX News Channel (FNC) in November 2001 as a war correspondent. He was immediately stationed in Afghanistan to cover Operation Enduring Freedom and later in Bethlehem to cover the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Rivera's last regular series on Fox News Channel was At Large with Geraldo Rivera, shown on Saturday and Sunday nights. He ended the program on October 9, 2005, in order to begin a new weekday syndicated show, Geraldo at Large. The new series features many Fox News Channel correspondents, including Laurie Dhue and Phil Keating, and Rivera frequently appears on Fox News to promote his latest stories. On January 4, 2007, Fox cancelled At Large because of low ratings.
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In keeping with his penchant for responsible reporting, Rivera traded in his syndicated talk show for a bigger role in the NBC news division, signing a three-year deal worth an estimated $3 million annually near the end of 1997. The terms of the contract called for the continuation of "Rivera Live", an additional CNBC primetime program to be developed by Rivera, four primetime programs to be produced by NBC News featuring the journalist and focusing on legal and criminal justice issues, plus his continued legal commentary on "Today". Despite concerns about Rivera's talk-show host image, NBC, reluctant to lose any "star power" to their fledgling competitor, exercised its right to negotiate the deal after he had already accepted an offer to be an anchor on the Fox News Channel. The demise of "The Geraldo Rivera Show" at the conclusion of its 11th season in August of 1998 marked the end of an era in daytime TV and reinforced Rivera's image as a reborn "serious" journalist.
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Rivera aired a story for Fox News about American soldiers who were killed abroad by friendly fire during a US bombing raid. Rivera intoned the Lord's Prayer and described the site as ''hallowed ground''. The problem was, David Foklenfilk of The Baltimore Sun discovered Rivera had been hundreds of miles away during the incident. The Fox News Channel concluded that Rivera had made a regrettable error. Geraldo defended his reporting as ''an innocent mistake'' in which he mistook ''the carnage in Tora Bora'' for the bloodshed in Kandahar. He ... presented evidence that another friendly-fire attack took place in Tora Bora, from where he delivered his disputed report.
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