“The Chance for Peace” Address Delivered Before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 16th, 1953 (Eisenhower’s response to Stalin’s death, contrast with “condolences” for Iran )
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Eisenhower Library ^
| April 16, 1953 | President Eisenhower
IN THIS SPRING of 1953 the free world weighs one question above all others: the chance for a just peace for all peoples. To
weigh this chance is to summon instantly to mind another recent moment of great decision. It came with that yet more hopeful spring of 1945, bright with the promise of victory and of freedom. The hope of all just men in that moment too was a just and lasting peace. The 8 years that have passed have seen that hope waver, grow dim, and almost die. And the shadow of fear again has darkly lengthened across...
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Newspaper Editor Tells Readers He Must Say Truth About Trump, Even If It Offends
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HuffPost ^
| Apr 2, 2024
The editor of The Plain Dealer in Cleveland told readers that critical coverage of Donald Trump was necessary despite their objections. “The
north star here is truth,” Chris Quinn wrote in a letter from the editor on Saturday. “We tell the truth, even when it offends some of the people who pay us for information.” “The truth is that Donald Trump undermined faith in our elections in his false bid to retain the presidency,” he continued. “He sparked an insurrection intended to overthrow our government and keep himself in power. No president in our history has done worse. This is...
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[Catholic Caucus] Leading Italian bishop, Vatican newspaper pay tribute to ‘Via Crucis of a Gay Boy’
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Catholic Culture ^
| March 26, 2024 | Catholic World News
[Catholic Caucus] Leading Italian bishop, Vatican newspaper pay tribute to ‘Via Crucis of a Gay Boy’The Vatican newspaper has published Bishop Francesco Savino’s preface to Via Crucis di un ragazzo gay [Via Crucis of a Gay Boy], a new book by Luigi Testa, an Italian law professor.Appointed a bishop in 2015, Bishop
Savino has been the vice president of the Italian Episcopal Conference since 2022. Father Sergio Massironi, an official of the Dicastery for the Promoting Integral Human Development, contributed an afterword to the book.In conjunction with Bishop Savino’s preface—which focused more on the prelate’s own reflections than on the...
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Blocking newspaper trucks is NOT ‘peaceful protest’
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NY Post ^
| 3/15/24 | Post Editorial Board
When anti-Israel activists swarmed the plant that prints The New York Times, The Post and other newspapers the other day, aiming to stop the papers’ distribution, cops passed on making arrests because this was supposedly “peaceful protest.” No:
It was a forceful attack on a private enterprise (on private property, too), and on the freedom of the press. But city government refuses to protect the peace, and has even signed away its ability to restrain out-of-control “protest” mobs. Heck, City Hall agreed to pay $13 million to “protesters” — nearly $10K per rioter — arrested during the looting, arson, and...
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Greg Abbott 'Blood Oath' Condemned By Texas' Largest Newspaper
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Newsweek ^
| March 7, 2024 | Rachel Dobkin
Texas' largest newspaper, The Houston Chronicle, condemned what it described as the Republican "blood oath" primary election where, it says, Governor Greg Abbott tried to get rid of GOP lawmakers who refused to side with him. The
Lone Star State held its primary on Super Tuesday. Some conservative judges and Republican lawmakers were ousted for what The Chronicle saw as simply doing their job and not giving in to the wishes of Abbott and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
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Texas Newspaper Issues Warning About Secession
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Newsweek ^
| 03/02/2024 | Natalie Venegas
In an opinion piece published on Saturday titled, "Texas voters, beware of pro-secession candidates," the Dallas Morning News' editorial board raised concerns over Republican candidates signing the "Take Texas Back" pledge. "As
Super Tuesday approaches, Republican primary voters in Texas should beware. A worrying number of candidates for the Texas House of Representatives and other offices have signed the 'Take Texas Back' pledge that makes them promise to advance legislation to help Texas secede from the United States under certain conditions," the opinion piece read. The "Take Texas Back" pledge asks candidates to promise that if elected, they will place...
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Major Texas Newspaper Endorses Joe Biden
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Newsweek ^
| 2/20/2024 | Palmer
A number of Republican and MAGA figures have reacted angrily after The Houston Chronicle, one of the biggest newspapers in Texas, endorsed President Joe Biden. The Houston Chronicle's editorial board said they would be backing Biden in the Democratic primary and for re-election so he can "make life better" for the American
people as well as prevent the "chaos, corruption and danger to the nation" that would accompany his presumed 2024 Republican challenger Donald Trump returning to the White House. The Houston Chronicle's praise for Biden will be a boost for the Democrat as he seeks re-election in November. It...
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Oklahoma Newspaper Must Pay $25 Million to Man They Smeared As Racist
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Red State ^
| 7 February 2024 | Ben Kew
Oklahoma's largest newspaper must pay out a staggeringly large settlement to a sports broadcaster they wrongly identified as being a racist, it was announced on Tuesday. The Oklahoman, the state's largest newspaper, was ordered by a jury to pay $25 million to Scott Sapulpa after they accused him of engaging in a
racist tirade against high school basketball players. The incident in question took place in March 2021, when players from the Norman High School girls basketball team "took the knee" in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. As the protest took place, audiences were astonished to hear one...
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High school sports broadcaster awarded $25M after newspaper wrongfully called him a racist
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NY Post ^
| 02/06/2024 | Melissa Koenig
An Oklahoma man was awarded $25 million in damages after a jury concluded that the state’s largest newspaper intentionally harmed him when it wrongfully identified him as the high school sports announcer who hurled racist remarks at players. Scott
Sapulpa was one of two announcers commentating on a March 2021 girls’ playoff game between Midwest City High School and Norman High School that made national headlines when the Norman team took a knee and the other commentator, Matt Rowan, went on a racist tirade against the girls.
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The Ha'aretz newspaper refuses to publish an advertisement by the Sovereignty Movement against a Palestinian State.
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HakollHayehudi ^
| 01/25/24
An ad by the Sovereignty Movement with data from a survey that was conducted, stating that 74% of Israeli citizens oppose the establishment of a Palestinian state – was rejected for publication in the Ha’aretz newspaper. The
Sovereignty Movement: “Ha’aretz is trying to hide from its readers the awakening of Israeli citizens” 25/01/2024 Ha’aretz has once again refused to publish an ad by a right-wing movement. The Sovereignty Movement turned to the newspaper with a request to publish an ad this week with data from a survey that was published for them in which it is revealed that a majority...
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Mass layoffs hit LA Times, California's biggest newspaper
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San Francisco Chronicle ^
| Jan 23, 2024 | By Farley Elliott
The Los Angeles Times, the largest newspaper in California and one of the biggest by circulation in the entire United States, was hit with a heavy round of layoffs Tuesday. The move to terminate more than 110 positions within the company has been widely rumored for several weeks — even prompting a
one-day walkout protest from the newsroom last week — but the scale of the layoffs, and when those layoffs would happen, was not widely known until Tuesday morning.
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Dr. Mordechai Kedar: "If it wasn't for this [foreign money] support, the newspaper "Haaretz" would have gone bankrupt a long time ago" [Haaretzism]
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TovNews ^
| 01/19/2024 | Dvir Yadai
Dr. Mordechai Kedar answers the question: Could the State of Israel have won the War of Independence if there had been media like today's at that time? Ynet's
military reporter Ron Ben Yishai, one of the oldest military reporters, was a guest at the Channel 13 studio and criticized the Israeli media on the way the war was covered. According to him, if the War of Independence had taken place in the era of the current media, the State of Israel would not have been established. Dr. Mordechai Kedar , who heard about these things, said: "He is absolutely right...
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Judge tosses pro-abortion Notre Dame professor’s defamation lawsuit against student newspaper
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Life Site News ^
| January 11, 2024 | Ashley Sadler
SOUTH BEND, Indiana (LifeSiteNews) — A superior court judge this week dismissed a lawsuit brought by a University of Notre Dame professor against the student newspaper after they reported on the educator’s pro-abortion advocacy that conflicts with Catholic moral teaching. Justice
Steven David with the St. Joseph County Superior Court dismissed the lawsuit on January 8. The judge said in his ruling that Notre Dame’s student-run campus newspaper, The Irish Rover, had not committed defamation in its reporting on abortion advocacy by the plaintiff, Notre Dame Professor Tamara Kay. “The Court concludes that Dr. Kay does not present any evidence...
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Striking Washington Post Journos Beg Public to Ignore the Newspaper and Website
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Breitbart ^
Journalists at the left-wing Washington Post walked off the job to begin a 24-hour strike Thursday while issuing a plea to the general public for support.The striking employees have planned a picket and rally outside the Post’s downtown Washington office to bring attention to their cause.In the process they have asked the
general public to observe a simple request: do not read the newspaper or website for the duration of the industrial action, the Hill reports.
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New audiobook release: The American Newspaper
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PGA Weblog ^
After a much longer delay than I hoped would happen, I am very happy to say that Will Irwin's The American Newspaper is now available as a public domain audio book. For
those of you who have strong feelings against media bias, this one is one you will not want to overlook. It's also a short work. There are only 15 segments, and the average runtime for each segment is often times in the 20-25 minute range making it both easy and quick to consume. Irwin properly frames how media use their power for political ends, and how their power...
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Israeli minister targets Haaretz newspaper for [fake news &]
'anti-Israel incitement' [Haaretzism]
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JPost ^
| November 23, 2023 | Ariella Marsden
Karhi explained that much of the paper’s funding comes from ads and subscriptions purchased by the government. Communications
Minister Shlomo Karhi (Likud) seeks to sanction the Haaretz daily, he told Cabinet Secretary Yossi Fuchs in a letter on Thursday. “Since the beginning of the war, my office has received many complaints about Haaretz taking a harmful direction that undermines the war’s objectives and weakens the military effort and our social resilience,” wrote Karhi. “It’s possible that some of its articles even cross the legal line in the sections of the Penal Code that are unique to wartime.” Karhi went on...
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Student newspaper forces out editor for writing about Israeli casualties, not mentioning Palestinians
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The College Fix ^
Matthew Giffin, a student at Middle Tennessee State University: "As editor-in-chief of my student newspaper, I tried to publish a profile of a student worried about his friends in Israel. The fallout was typical." The
newspaper forced him out after publishing a statement claiming he "failed to report on the casualties the Palestinian people have suffered and focused only on damage done to the Israeli population.â
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Media Industry in Shambles: The Washington Post Cuts Staff, Newspaper Decline Persists, and Vice Faces Workforce Reductions
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Citizen Watch Report ^
The media landscape continues to face severe challenges, exemplified by The Washington Post's decision to cut 10% of its staff, indicating a substantial financial loss exceeding $100 million this year. The
broader trend is evident as over 25% of all U.S. newspapers (daily and weekly) folded in the past 15 years. Newspaper advertising revenue mirrored the decline, plummeting by 25% from 2019 to 2020. A noteworthy shift is the fact that 42 out of the 100 largest U.S. newspapers no longer publish on a daily basis. The decline is pervasive across legacy corporate news media, both digital and print, with...
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Italian Regime Newspaper Mocks Pinocchio-Francis
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Gloria TV ^
| November 6, 2023 | Gloria TV
Italian Regime Newspaper Mocks Pinocchio-FrancisThe daily IlGiornale.it (owner: Berlusconi family) satirised on November 5 that the Vatican had created the Golden Pinocchio award, which Jorge Mario Bergoglio had won “without competition".The story behind it was Francis’ recent answer to the regime's TG1 news programme on whether he preferred Maradona or Messi, "I
prefer the third one, Pelé", he said.But seven years ago, when asked by a group of boys whether he preferred Maradona or Pelé, he replied, “I chose the third one, Messi."IlGiornale.it comments that no one knows what the truth is, but they all agreed to award Bergoglio the...
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A newspaper giant tried to diversify its staff. White workers sued.
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Washington Post via Google archive ^
| November 4, 2023 | Taylor Telford
After more than 20 years of working for his hometown newspaper, the Democrat and Chronicle in Rochester, N.Y., Steve Bradley was laid off amid pandemic-induced cost-cutting in May 2020. He
was crushed, but he eventually took a communications job for a local school district. Sitting in the bleachers at the school softball field in July 2022, Bradley took a phone call from an unknown number. He listened as J. Nelson Thomas, an employment lawyer he’d never met, presented a jarring claim: Bradley was laid off because he is White. Now, Bradley is one of five named plaintiffs in a proposed...
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