http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/journalists/ en-us Sat, 9 Aug 2008 04:23:30 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2058908/posts First person: Embedded with Iraqi army, where saluting is optional Vanity http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2058908/posts#comment Sat, 9 Aug 2008 04:23:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2057195/posts The graphic didn't post last time. Here it is: Below is a higher resolution version of this teen fanzine parody I created that was originally posted at NewsBusters. There is no question that the media is infatuated with Barack Obama. -Matthew Vadum Cantankerous Gentleman http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2057195/posts#comment Wed, 6 Aug 2008 03:03:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049324/posts The New York Times' refusal to publish John McCain's rebuttal to Barack Obama's Iraq Op-Ed may be the most glaring example of liberal media bias this journalist has ever seen, but true proof of widespread media bias requires one to follow an old journalism maxim: Follow the money. With even the Associated Press -- no bastion of conservatism -- considering, at least superficially, the media's favoritism for Barack Obama, it's time to re-visit media bias. Typically, journalists are defending their bias by saying that one candidate, Obama, is more "newsworthy" than the other. In other words, there is no media... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049324/posts#comment Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:16:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/589257/posts NEW YORK (December 12, 2001 6:15 a.m. EST) - From his position near Tora Bora, Afghanistan, Fox News Channel correspondent Geraldo Rivera seemed more agitated by a question about carrying a gun than by the mortar rounds that just exploded nearby. "I refuse to address that issue," said Rivera, speaking into a satellite phone. "It's been blown way out of proportion. It makes me sound like a tabloid talk show host goes to war. It's so unfair." Yet Rivera's decision to bring a gun into a war zone where eight journalists have been killed has raised questions about whether ... The NandO Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/589257/posts#comment Wed, 12 Dec 2001 20:48:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1991795/posts IT is certainly no secret that Senator John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, is a darling of the news media... ...While other candidates have tried to schmooze reporters this way without success, what has made Mr. McCain’s fraternization so effective is that it comes with candor — or at least the illusion of it. Over the years, reporter after reporter has remarked upon his seemingly unguarded frankness. In 1999, William Greider wrote in Rolling Stone that, “Will somebody tell this guy to shut up before he self-destructs?” Imagine, reporters protecting a candidate from himself! ...What makes 2008 different —... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1991795/posts#comment Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:32:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1987799/posts The Foreign Correspondents Club of China said it had details of two dozen foreign reporters who were expelled from Lhasa and other Tibetan areas. Some reporters were told they were barred due to police action, feeds.bignewsnetwork.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1987799/posts#comment Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:44:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1987768/posts Jordanian court handed down jail terms of three months each on five newspaper journalists, including two prominent editors, for contempt of court and defamation, the head of the press association said on Tuesday. Tareq al-Momani, head of the group that represents press interests, conveyed a court convicted two editors and three journalists from the leading newspapers, Ad-Dustour, Al-Arab AlYawm and al-Al Rai, on March 13 for publishing offences. They remain free pending appeal, Reuters reported. "We look with concern at the passing of these sentences in opinion cases which reflects negatively on freedom of the press," Momani told Reuters. Four... al Bawaba http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1987768/posts#comment Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:51:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1986844/posts LONDON — Four British Broadcasting Corp. journalists were among seven men arrested in Ireland in connection with an investigation into paramilitary activity, the BBC said Sunday. The news organization said the journalists were working on a current affairs program when they were arrested by Irish police Saturday. Ireland's police confirmed that seven men between the ages of 30 and 48 were in custody but declined to offer further details. The BBC said the arrests took place in County Donegal, which neighbors Northern Ireland. Its Web site said the men had "full editorial authority under the BBC's guidelines" for their work.... foxnews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1986844/posts#comment Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:25:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1980342/posts As Harry Truman famously said: “If you can’t take the heat, stay out of the kitchen?” Obama has started running from the kitchen when the news media turns up the heat. Ask Tough Questions? Yes, They Can!By Dana MilbankWashington Post March 4, 2008SAN ANTONIO It took many months and the mockery of “Saturday Night Live” to make it happen, but the lumbering beast that is the press corps finally roused itself from its slumber Monday and greeted Barack Obama with a menacing growl.The day before primaries in Ohio and Texas that could effectively seal the Democratic presidential nomination for him,... Flopping Aces http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1980342/posts#comment Tue, 4 Mar 2008 20:17:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1976550/posts As athletes train for the summer Olympics in China, a new book claims that the country's vast spy network is gearing up for a different challenge - keeping an eye on journalists and potential troublemakers. French writer Roger Faligot, author of some 40 intelligence-related books, has penned 'The Chinese Secret Services from Mao to the Olympic Games', due out February 29. His findings claim that special teams are being formed at the country's embassies abroad "to identify sports journalists ... and to define if they have an 'antagonistic' or 'friendly' attitude in regards to China." Potential foreign spies who may... AFP, via Breitbart.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1976550/posts#comment Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:44:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1974504/posts South Africa: No White Journalists At Zuma Address Business Day (Johannesburg) 22 February 2008 Posted to the web 22 February 2008 Hajra Omarjee Johannesburg AN INVITATION to African National Congress (ANC) president Jacob Zuma to address a function exclusively for black journalists today has become a public relations nightmare for the organisers. The ANC defended the move yesterday, saying that while the party was multiracial it respected the Forum for Black Journalists' "constitutional right" to organise along racial lines, and would not dictate to them. The forum, formed in 1996, relaunches in Johannesburg today. Zuma was invited as a guest... Business Day (Johannesburg) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1974504/posts#comment Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:32:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1968893/posts Even before Mitt Romney bowed out — with class, by the way — supporters of John McCain, and Republican party pooh-bahs in general, were chastising those conservatives in the media who had criticized Senator McCain. Those who leveled their attacks at Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and other conservatives who had criticized McCain's record completely misconceived the role of the media. Journalists do not exist to get one party's candidates elected or otherwise serve one party's political interests. The public are the journalists' clientele. It is the public that reads newspapers and magazines, that listens to radio or watches television. They... Jewish World Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1968893/posts#comment Tue, 12 Feb 2008 03:27:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1963691/posts WASHINGTON (AP) - A five-year, $15 billion effort to combat AIDS in Africa and other areas - arguably the most important and popular international program of the Bush presidency - may become a political battleground as it comes up for renewal. President Bush wants to double and House Democrats want to triple spending on a program that is now treating 1.4 million people, most of them in sub-Saharan Africa, where he will visit in two weeks. Democrats also want to slash spending on a multimillion-dollar component that emphasizes sexual abstinence. And that has conservative groups furious. Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1963691/posts#comment Sat, 2 Feb 2008 09:55:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1963320/posts Journalists are taught never to "bury the lead." Yet it looks as if that's precisely what CBS's "60 Minutes" did in reporter Scott Pelley's fascinating interview Sunday with George Piro, the FBI agent who debriefed Saddam Hussein following his capture in December 2003. Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1963320/posts#comment Fri, 1 Feb 2008 18:03:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1955356/posts An Iowahawk Special Investigative ReportWith Statistical Guidance from the New York TimesA Denver newspaper columnist is arrested for stalking a story subject. In Cincinnati, a television reporter is arrested on charges of child molestation. A North Carolina newspaper reporter is arrested for harassing a local woman. A drunken Chicago Sun-Times columnist and editorial board member is arrested for wife beating. A Baltimore newspaper editor is arrested for threatening neighbors with a shotgun. In Florida, one TV reporter is arrested for DUI, while another is charged with carrying a gun into a high school. A Philadelphia news anchorwoman goes on a... Iowahawk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1955356/posts#comment Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:39:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1955834/posts Watch the video at CBS of an AP journalist getting angry about something Mitt Romney said, and Romney getting angry in response. That Press Secretary was quite right: journalist (and I use this word loosely) Glen Johnson behaved incredibly unprofessionally, he even carried on his little fight after the press conference. Obviously Romney should’ve expressed himself a bit more clearly, but this journalist… what a dupe. Share and Enjoy: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. 6 Comments » 1 supernovia January 18, 2008 @ 1:04 am CET Seriously. Once the... PoliGazett http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1955834/posts#comment Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:56:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1949315/posts Manchester – When a piece of chicken got stuck in journalist Al Hunt's windpipe Friday night, Sen. John Sununu came to the rescue. "John was terrific," said Hunt, 65, executive editor for Washington at Bloomberg News. "He quickly jumped up, put his arms around me, did the (Heimlich) maneuver. Within about two seconds, it came out." Hunt and Sununu were sitting next to each other Friday night at the Hanover Street Chop House in downtown Manchester. The table was packed with powerbrokers, politicians and prominent journalists, including columnist Bob Novak, New York Times managing editor Jill Abramson and Hunt's wife,... Union Leader http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1949315/posts#comment Sun, 6 Jan 2008 23:00:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1948448/posts Newsies in CBS affiliate in Cincinnati-Ohio find their callingClick on the Local12 link above to watch video. Local 12.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1948448/posts#comment Fri, 4 Jan 2008 22:25:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1937024/posts MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Gunmen shot a crime reporter 45 times in a Mexican town plagued by drug violence on Saturday after a high-speed chase as he tried to escape on his motorcycle. Cut off by a vehicle in Uruapan, in the state of Michoacan, Gerardo Garcia fled on his motorcycle as far as his home, where his pursuers killed him, police and a source at the newspaper where he worked told Reuters. Mexico's drug cartels are battling for control of regions key to trafficking South American cocaine and other drugs into the United States. Mexican journalists are targets of... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1937024/posts#comment Sun, 9 Dec 2007 18:13:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1936594/posts Did you hear the one about the two journalists that walked into a Romanian airport wearing Al Qaeda Airline uniforms and put fake bombs on planes? …No, it’s not the setup for a joke, it really did happen. An investigation has been launched after the pair entered Baneasa Airport in Bucharest wearing hats and overalls marked “Al Qaeda Airlines”. Alexandru Cautis and Catalin Prisacaru, from the Academia Catavencu newspaper, drove into a supposedly secure parking area, reserved for airport staff, unchallenged. Once inside, they were able to place fake bombs on passenger planes without being questioned. They were also able... nationalterroralert.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1936594/posts#comment Sat, 8 Dec 2007 13:39:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1924361/posts Hey, do you remember Bobby Caina Calvan, the arrogant newspaper reporter who blogged about his snit fit in Iraq when a soldier asked him for identification–earning himself a Jerk of the Year nomination? Well, Calvan’s MSM friends and editors have again come to his defense. They’re as clueless and snotty as he is. Armando Acuna, public editor of the Sacramento Bee, chose Veterans’ Day to mount his blog-bashing campaign and apologia for Calvan: A day after his Oct. 23 blog posting, Calvan woke up at 5 a.m. in his Baghdad hotel room and signed onto his computer. “My e-mail started... Michelle Malkin http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1924361/posts#comment Mon, 12 Nov 2007 01:59:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1924391/posts Why do they buy the nonsense about alleged greenhouse gases causing dangerous global warming? The claim about the power of greenhouse gases sounds like magic and the evidence for “global warming” is of little value. Those who talk about global warming claim a 0.5 C (1 F) increase in what they call the global average temperature indicates the earth is getting warmer. You don’t have to be a mathematician or physicist to recognize that one temperature cannot represent every place on earth from frigid polar regions to blazing deserts. Nor can a single temperature represent year round conditions in temperate... The London Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1924391/posts#comment Mon, 12 Nov 2007 03:28:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1923882/posts Opposition leader Benazir Bhutto described Pakistan on Saturday as a pressure cooker about to explode, as President Pervez Musharraf's government tightened screws on media by ordering out three British journalists. Having invoked emergency powers a week ago, General Musharraf has sacked most of the country's judges, put senior ones under house arrest, and ordered police to round up most of the opposition leadership and anyone else deemed troublesome. He has also placed curbs on media. Private news channels are off the air and transmissions of BBC and CNN have been blocked, though newspapers are publishing freely. "Pakistan under dictatorship is... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1923882/posts#comment Sat, 10 Nov 2007 18:58:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1922964/posts Terry Leonard has been named the new top editor at Stars and Stripes. Acting publisher Max Lederer announced Wednesday that Leonard had been selected as editorial director. Leonard, who is currently the Southern Africa bureau chief for The Associated Press, replaces Dave Mazzarella, who retired as Stripes editor earlier this year and began his second stint as the newspaper’s ombudsman. During his more than 30 years as a journalist, Leonard has covered the Gulf War and Somalia, Lederer said in a Wednesday e-mail to the Stripes staff. "Terry brings to [Stars and Stripes] a seasoned journalist who has walked in... EDITOR & PUBLISHER http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1922964/posts#comment Thu, 8 Nov 2007 20:28:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1911940/posts WHAT THE MEDIA SOMEHOW MISSED .... CAN'T FIGURE OUT WHY Retired Army General Ricardo Sanchez made a speech to the military reporters and editors in Washington DC last Friday. The media was quick to quote General Sanchez .. but only selectively. You can read the text of General Sanchez' speech right here. http://www.militaryreporters.org/sanchez_101207.html I urge you to do so. After Sanchez finished the speech the reporters couldn't wait to share with the American people his assessment of the war in Iraq. To put it gently, his assessment wasn't mild. Try this quote: "There has been a glaring, unfortunate, display of... Nealz Nuze/WSB Radio http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1911940/posts#comment Tue, 16 Oct 2007 15:22:00 GMT