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Reporter Quits Yahoo (says Free Republic hosts child porn)
http://www.businessinsider.com ^ | Sep. 22, 2010 | Nicholas Carlson

Posted on 09/22/2010 6:59:33 PM PDT by remaxagnt

Yahoo News editor Andrew Golis says star reporter John Cook is quitting to re-join Gawker because "he prefers the license Gawker gave him to add his opinions into his reporting to the scale and credibility Yahoo! News could offer."

John tells AOL's Jeff Bercovici that's hogwash.

He says he quit Yahoo because they censored him like crazy.

Bercovici reports:

In one instance, Cook was forced to bowdlerize a quotation from New York Times reporter James Risen; he was told that referring to masturbation, even euphemistically, was unacceptable. On similar grounds, he was prohibited from writing about the conservative website Free Republic hosting child pornography. Most glaringly, he was told that a proposed story on the Obama Administration raising the salary of White House staffers by 9% lacked the necessary balance; it was killed

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/john-cook-left-yahoo-because-they-wouldnt-let-him-write-about-masturbation-big-white-house-salaries-and-the-free-republics-child-porn-problem-2010-9#ixzz10JTtgHyk

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Free Republic; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fr; freerepublic; trollblamesfrforporn; trollpostsporn
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To: Nateman
It has not been updated in almost 2 years!

I think the Admin of that site has been busy lately. Animated GIFs of dogs humping legs take a lot of time and effort to prepare.

41 posted on 09/22/2010 7:25:22 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (I am Derek Fenton! (me) Enjoying freedom ourselves requires tolerating it for others. (Jedidah))
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To: penelopesire
???

This guy is admitting to possessing and trafficking child porn?

Hey FBI lurkers, go get this guy.

42 posted on 09/22/2010 7:28:19 PM PDT by Deaf Smith
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To: TSgt

Wow they do look like they are twins.


43 posted on 09/22/2010 7:31:59 PM PDT by funfan
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To: penelopesire

And why wasn’t this slime ball arrested for possessing kiddie porn?

Links or not, he was technically in ‘possession’ of it.


44 posted on 09/22/2010 7:32:14 PM PDT by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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To: bvw
http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2010/05/12/freep_porn ?

That got kicked around last May: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2519759/posts

Salon asked, Can a child pornographer last longer at Free Republic than a Giuliani supporter?

45 posted on 09/22/2010 7:33:16 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: remaxagnt
"he prefers the license Gawker gave him to add his opinions into his reporting to the scale and credibility Yahoo! News could offer."

Some observations: 1) as soon as a reporter inserts his/her opinion into his/her work, he/she ceases being a reporter and becomes a commentator. Yahoo evidently doesn't understand this, because their bias is evident in everything they write.
2) Yahoo news has no scale and credibility...see above.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

46 posted on 09/22/2010 7:37:31 PM PDT by wku man (Steel yourselves, patriots, and be ready. Won't be long now....)
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To: penelopesire

“He admitted in his Daily KOS journal he added kiddie porn links to profile pages on the website “Free Republic”

Shouldn’t the question be asked how he got the child porn in the first place? I don’t think you just google it.


47 posted on 09/22/2010 7:40:00 PM PDT by bk1000 (A clear conscience is a sure sign of a poor memory)
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To: remaxagnt
Beware..

Graphic images

child pornography follows:


48 posted on 09/22/2010 7:41:20 PM PDT by Raycpa
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To: bk1000

No you can’t just google it.

I’m willing to be he ‘uploaded’ it from his own computer.

Time for a little ‘visit’ from the authorities...


49 posted on 09/22/2010 7:42:28 PM PDT by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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To: Bigh4u2

be = bet


50 posted on 09/22/2010 7:43:08 PM PDT by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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To: bk1000

I dunno...I am sure that google tries their best to help child pornographers peddle their wares in every way they can. After all..Google is a big supporter of democrats.


51 posted on 09/22/2010 7:44:37 PM PDT by penelopesire (OBAMAÂ’S WARS are with the American people and our military...BushÂ’s Wars were with our enemies!!)
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To: mnehring

Wasn’t that at the same time some troll kept posting pics of that very naked old homosexual holding his nether cheeks open? That pic was posted as a thread repeatedly. I think the IP addy was finally banned.


52 posted on 09/22/2010 7:54:38 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (If Bam is the answer, the question was stupid.)
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To: cripplecreek

I you are anything like me a lot of those hits were your own :)


53 posted on 09/22/2010 7:54:58 PM PDT by Domandred (Fdisk, format, and reinstall the entire .gov system.)
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To: Marty62
"Why do all serial killers and lefties look like they have a serious vitamin D deficiency"

good point two of the most depressed, angry and 'misunderstood' people on that planet.

54 posted on 09/22/2010 7:57:34 PM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric cartman voice* 'I love you guys')
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To: remaxagnt

How damned low can they go?


55 posted on 09/22/2010 8:00:47 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, A Matter Of Fact, Not A Matter Of Opinion)
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To: DJ MacWoW

That is a common internet prank using a image swap script. For example, someone looks for an image of a bunny on Google and posts it. They don’t know that the site they posted it from uses that script and replaces the “Goatse” (don’t Google that) image with the bunny.


56 posted on 09/22/2010 8:01:06 PM PDT by mnehring
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To: Nateman
"Huh???? Is this guy on drugs?"

Naah. Heesh not on drugsh. He is just a lil...(Bents forward in intense concentration) druhnk...But...No drugsh.

57 posted on 09/22/2010 8:02:50 PM PDT by Celtic Cross (Pablo is very whiney)
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To: Pan_Yan
Which leads me to ask the following question: This guy has links to kiddie porn? Did he have to research it or were they already in his "favorites"?

Wow, Bernie Ward, the "lyin' of the left" out here in Pelousy-ville is a guest of the state department of corrections for doing less than this POS. If I were Bernie, I'd sit on this guy when he gets out.

58 posted on 09/22/2010 8:03:07 PM PDT by ssaftler (Californians: Yes on 20, No on 27. No more Jerry-mandering! (Or Jerry-browning either!))
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To: mnehring

Actually this was a troll that posted it. Usually early in the morning. Seems to me that I remember some changes in software and for awhile newbies couldn’t post threads.


59 posted on 09/22/2010 8:04:57 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (If Bam is the answer, the question was stupid.)
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To: penelopesire

Zot

http://www.freerepublic.com/~mantratx/


60 posted on 09/22/2010 8:06:59 PM PDT by Red Steel
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