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		<title>Bloomberg&#8217;s Gifts to His Press Corps</title>

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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2007 17:47:26 -0400</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft" src="http://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/rsz_pigeonlove2.jpg?w=300&h=116" />Last night, Michael Bloomberg hosted his annual holiday party at Gracie Mansion for reporters, where gag gifts are always exchanged. </p>
<p>Here's what he gave this year, all supposedly &quot;made in China:&quot; </p>
<p>Frankie Edozien of the <em>New York Post</em>, who wrote about the <a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/11132007/news/regionalnews/pol_goes_mano_a_guano_767371.htm" target="_blank">pigeon control bill</a>,  got “the Department of Health’s very first collection of pigeon birth control,&quot; or “pigeon condoms.”  </p>
<p>A gold watch (of questionable authenticity) went to Karla Schuster, who has been <em>Newsday</em>’s City Hall Bureau Chief for six months, allegedly an unusually long tenure.</p>
<p> Radio reporter Rich Lamb, who is one of the only reporters in City Hall in the same age bracket as Bloomberg, received a &quot;photo&quot; of Lamb and Saint Patrick from back in the good old Middle Ages.</p>
<p>  Television reporter Melissa Russo, who didn’t go on Bloomberg's Asia trip, got leftover Chinese food.</p>
<p>  And City Hall bureau chief Diane Cardwell of the <em>New York Times</em>, a newspaper that literally shrunk not so long ago, got “T.G.H.” This, the mayor explained, stands for “Times Growth Hormone,” and its catch phrase is: “All the juice to fit more print.”       </p>
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft" src="http://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/rsz_pigeonlove2.jpg?w=300&h=116" />Last night, Michael Bloomberg hosted his annual holiday party at Gracie Mansion for reporters, where gag gifts are always exchanged. </p>
<p>Here's what he gave this year, all supposedly &quot;made in China:&quot; </p>
<p>Frankie Edozien of the <em>New York Post</em>, who wrote about the <a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/11132007/news/regionalnews/pol_goes_mano_a_guano_767371.htm" target="_blank">pigeon control bill</a>,  got “the Department of Health’s very first collection of pigeon birth control,&quot; or “pigeon condoms.”  </p>
<p>A gold watch (of questionable authenticity) went to Karla Schuster, who has been <em>Newsday</em>’s City Hall Bureau Chief for six months, allegedly an unusually long tenure.</p>
<p> Radio reporter Rich Lamb, who is one of the only reporters in City Hall in the same age bracket as Bloomberg, received a &quot;photo&quot; of Lamb and Saint Patrick from back in the good old Middle Ages.</p>
<p>  Television reporter Melissa Russo, who didn’t go on Bloomberg's Asia trip, got leftover Chinese food.</p>
<p>  And City Hall bureau chief Diane Cardwell of the <em>New York Times</em>, a newspaper that literally shrunk not so long ago, got “T.G.H.” This, the mayor explained, stands for “Times Growth Hormone,” and its catch phrase is: “All the juice to fit more print.”       </p>
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