Keith C. Burris: Truth, fairness and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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Post-Gazette ^
| 6/10/20 | Keith C. Burris
In recent days the readers of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette have been subjected to a great deal of disinformation about the Post-Gazette. It is time for the rest of the story. Let’s
start with this: Editors at this newspaper did not single out a black reporter and a black photographer and ban them from covering Pittsburgh protests after the killing of George Floyd. And we certainly did not single out two people and keep them from covering local protests because they were black. That is an outrageous lie - a defamation, in fact. We assumed the lie was so outrageous that...
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Alabama's Luther Strange Offered Senate Appointment Advice by Roland Burris
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U.S. News & World Report ^
| Feb. 8, 2017
Perhaps better than any living American politician, former Sen. Roland Burris can sympathize with Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange, who is being considered for a Senate appointment expected soon from a scandal-plagued governor. The
Illinois Democrat, formerly a state attorney general himself, re-entered public office with a 2008 appointment to President Barack Obama's empty Senate seat. Then-Illinois governor and current prison inmate Rod Blagojevich had been arrested for trying to sell Obama's seat and, in saying yes, Burris lacquered himself with the scandal's taint. Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley is not accused of trying to sell the Senate seat being vacated...
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Burris revelation raises more questions in already puzzling case
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| September 26, 2014 9:04PM | By Mark Brown
An already bizarre trial involving allegations an African despot hired a pair of obscure South Side businessmen to overturn U.S. sanctions against his regime — with the help of Illinois politicians — took an even stranger detour Friday. In the process, former U.S. Sen. Roland Burris got sideswiped, if not outright run
over, with completely unrelated — and to this point unsubstantiated — accusations he once tried to shake down a contractor while in office. Burris might be asking what he did to find himself in the middle of this mess, or just maybe he knows. I’ve always been as...
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