"If Rupert Murdoch wants to steal Maria Bartiromo for his new Fox Business Channel, his New York Post writers aren't helping matters much. They've written no fewer than 18 negative items in the past year about the 'Money Honey,' who's at competing channel CNBC, including one just last week." A friend tells Rush & Molloy that, "If they are looking to woo Maria, they sure could be a little smarter about it." Or maybe they know what they're doing. Bartiromo, who turns 40 tomorrow (Happy Birthday!), wouldn't be available to the Fox Business Channel until 2009, by which time dozens of other pretty girls who can read financial news from a teleprompter will be plastered all over the gossip pages. [NYDN]
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