Posted on 10/10/2007 6:18:01 AM PDT by kristinn
This morning, while researching stories following icwhatudo's article about the Frost family and S-CHIP, I noted a curious edit in Michelle Malkin's syndicated column in the New York Post. The credit given to posters at FreeRepublic.com for breaking the story was edited from the Post's version of the column.
A check of other outlets publishing Malkin's column today showed that the Free Republic mention was not edited out by her other publishers.
The syndicated version:
After 12-year-old Graeme Frost delivered the Democrat radio address, which was penned for him by Senate staffers, conservatives on the FreeRepublic.com forum and across the Internet asked the questions the mainstream media wouldn't ask about the family's financial situation. The couple claims a combined annual income of about $45,000. Neither the Democrats nor the Baltimore Sun indicates how they verified that assertion before circulating it.
The NY Post version:
After 12-year-old Graeme Frost delivered the Democratic radio address, which was penned for him by Senate staffers, conservatives across the Internet asked the questions the mainstream media wouldn't ask about the family's financial situation. The couple claims an annual income of about $45,000. Neither the Democrats nor the Baltimore Sun indicates how they verified that assertion before circulating it.
As many Freepers know, the NY Post is owned by News Corp, which also owns Fox News. Fox News recently smeared Free Republic on the O'Reilly Factor and in a report aired by Fox's Washington, D.C. affiliate.
Has the word gone out to News Corp properties to banish mentions of one of the most popular and influential political websites?
That might explain Bill O'Reilly's reticence at naming Free Republic when he alluded to FR on his radio show last month:
There is no corresponding level of this kind of vitriol on the right. Now, the worst one we came up with was some website out of California, the right-wing thing, and we had them in and they're bad but they're not that bad. I mean, I'm not justifying them. I don't like them....
This is speculation on my part, but it does seem plausible.
The more their true colors fly...
The more people will know what they really think.. (and intend!)...
And the forces and ideas they represent at the core level...
All bad for America.... IMHO
Kudos....
Salutations to all the pajama patrollers and street-theatre specialists from the DC chapter...
I suspect Free Republic is seen as an anti-Giuliani site, and the Murdoch empire is shilling for Giuliani.
You know, I think it’s much simpler than that. I think when people can get their news fix from an angle that agrees with their political viewpoint they’re going to do it. I remember back to the 2000 election when I only had dial up. I NEEDED to hear the news from Rush. I couldn’t take the smug just below the surface celebratory tone from the MSM whenever it looked like Gore would be able to sue himself into the presidency. I still like Rush, but there is no longer any instance where I need to get my news from him. Thanks to FR, I can get my news when I feel like it and it’s convenient for me. I think a lot of NY Post readers fall into that same category. It just doesn’t make good economic sense for the NY Post to be giving FreeRepublic free publicity.
Nothing is that simple in politics, low level economics maybe.
Censorship by the NY Post!
They also had limited space to run a full page General Betray Us Ad, so they cut one or two lines out of every other article.
Now there is a FR exclusive and headline...If someone takes the time to write it up. I don't have time or I would to it myself.
Conservatives as a whole will be mightily pissed if this catches their eye.
No it isn't censorship. It is willful mis-perfomance of the job they are being paid to do. The MSM has been doing this for decades and now, thanks mostly to the Internet, are finding themselves in a hole. And they keep digging.
I'd offer to loan them a shovel but they'd break it, lose it or pawn it.
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We must be over the target because we’re getting plenty of flak!
Perhaps Michelle Malkin should look into it.
Perhaps FNC should just give her the 8:00-9:00pm timeslot, and combine heeeeraldo and oreally for a one hour show broadcast live at 2am on Sundays
The lion’s share of entertainers, artists, writers, news outlets and money are in NY. And so are the current top Candidates. This was to be expected.
Let’s kick their butts just for the fun of it.
I dislike and distrust media barons. That was true with W R Hearst, Mr. Jane Fonda, and it is so with Murdoch. I have little taste for cable news, and have stopped watching Murdoch’s Fox news and when I do watch cable news programming, I am watching CNN’s Lou Dobbs and Glenn Beck. Watching anything on CNN and not watching anything on FNC is something I never dreamed that I would be doing a few years ago. I read the Post but I am not sure that I would call it a conservative newspaper. I am not sure there is such an animal in the MSM. Fox News has few people with conservative credentials, but I do believe Malkin does have the credentials, unfortunately she does not have a regular program on FNC.
Bump your recommendation. Thanks to Ms. Malkin for calling us a forum instead of a blog.
Cute, but wrong newspaper.
Yeah, I goofed that up. Thanks for the correction.
My weetle feelins is hurt. BoR don’t like me any more. BooHoo. < /sniff>
< pause 100 nanoseconds>
OK, I’m over it.
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