Posted on 02/16/2009 5:48:28 AM PST by autumnraine
Chicago Tribune's Jill Zuckman joins President Obama's administration as the Department of Transportation's director of public affairs and assistant to Secretary Ray LaHood.
Zuckman was a Washington-based correspondent at the Tribune and also made frequent appearances on MSNBC and Fox News.
She is the second Tribune reporter to take a job in the administration. Peter Gosselin is now the chief speech writer for Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. This move is somewhat of a trend- Jay Carney, formerly of Time Magazine, is now Vice President Biden's communications director and CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta is supposedly among the top picks to become the next surgeon general.
A Chicago Tribune reporter is now Department of Transportation's director of public affairs??
Noooo, no reason to think the media had any bias there, right?
This reminds of a King being coronated and all his minions would get plum jobs. I know that's a little of what goes on in any adminstration, but are these people qualified?
Can you imagine if George Bush had picked a Fox News reporter for an adminstration post?
Propaganda machine well intrentched in our new administration, truth is now banned, only thier lies will be heard.
Like Tony Snow?.............
Ok, good point.
When Zuckman first appeared on the FNC Panel, she was such a shill for the DNC that I wrote an email to Hume complaining that she had no original thoughts in her head. She would only repeat DNC faxes. The faxes would go from the paper of the DNC to the mouth of Zuckman without having the least effect on her brain (if she has one). I guess that’s what Obama needs, a brainless mouthpiece.
It could also be that she can see that the Tribune is in serious trouble and the Tribune management has no clue as to how to get out of the trouble. So she wants a place to perch until the storm blows over.
Did Michelle approve Obama’s choice?
The Chicago “Daley” Tribune made Obama by going out of there way to DESTROY Jack Ryan and clearing the field for their Messiah.
~~Media affair consummated ......... PING!
The Real Story Behind the Rushed Blagojevich Bust: How the Feds Are Frustrated by Losing (Maybe) Half of Their Case
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On Dec. 4, with the feds listening in, Blagojevich was allegedly putting this deal back into play.
The conversation resumed later that same day, as Blagojevich allegedly told his brother, a man identified in the affidavit as “Fundraiser A,” that he was “elevating” Mr. Jackson on the list of candidates, because the governor might be able to get something “tangible up front” for the pick.
He told his brother to meet with someone (unidentified by the feds) whom the pair believed to be close to Jackson. He urged his brother to tell this alleged supporter of Jackson that “some of this stuffs gotta start happening now… right now…and we gotta see it. You understand?” He was talking about campaign cash, the feds allege.
Then he allegedly offered his brother one final proviso: “I would do it in person. I would not do it on the phone.”
The next morning, on Friday, Dec. 5, it all came crashing down for the FBI agents underneath the headphones.
The Tribune’s front page screamed: “Feds taped Blagojevich; TRIBUNE EXCLUSIVE: Adviser cooperated with corruption probe, sources say.”
Blagojevich read the same headline. “Undo” that “thing,” the governor allegedly told his brother, according to the FBI. And just like that, the meeting was off, only one day after it had been put back into play.
There appear to have been fears in Fitzgerald’s office that those caught on tape might now seek to “undo” other “things.”
(((or that a BIG fish could’ve been implicated)))
Hours were logged over the weekend. Paperwork was pounded out. And before sunrise Tuesday, Blagojevich and his chief of staff were arrested simultaneously.
At that same moment, FBI agents also knocked on the doors of witnesses.
These were just a few of the people agents wanted to interview before cellphones started ringing across the city and others who had been caught on tape had a chance to get their stories straight.
Had it not been for the Tribune’s Dec. 5 story, the meeting Blagojevich’s brother was arranging might have proceeded. Mr. Blagojevich is quoted as citing the story, in the affidavit, then calling off the meeting.
At a minimum, the FBI’s recorders would have been rolling when he reported back. The feds also probably would have tried to bug the session live, or at least to tail the participants and secretly film or photograph them. That’s what feds do. Jurors love video.
Unlike these DNC hacks, who were/are lying to the public FOR YEARS.
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