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Barnes is Fox Business in DC

Kris Kitto of The Hill writes Wednesday about Peter Barnes, the Fox Business Network senior correspondent in Washington.

Kitto writes, “The veteran business journalist needs to provide no further evidence that he is in the midst of reporting the biggest story of his lifetime, yet it keeps showing up.

“A co-worker walks into his office to tell him that CNBC is reporting that the Treasury will release the results of its banking stress tests on May 4.

“‘Can we match that?’ he asks. Barnes turns to his computer keyboard and begins to narrate his response: ‘So I just had to ping three sources,’ he says.

“Behind him, a half-empty bookshelf holds what looks to be survival food — a box of Fig Newtons and two cartons of Lance Toast Cheese sandwich crackers.”

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