http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/mediots/ en-us Fri, 12 Dec 2008 15:34:09 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2147571/posts Moody's Investors Services on Thursday said that William Dean Singleton's MediaNews Group faces increased risk of defaulting on its loans, as it downgraded almost $1 billion of the debt for the parent company of The Denver Post. Moody's said it is concerned that the "downturn of the company advertising sales will be significantly more protracted than previously anticipated, further straining the company's liquidity profile and heightening the probability of a covenant default." The rating downgrade comes a week after E.W. Scripps announced that it is placing the Rocky Mountain News on the sales block, as well as its 50 percent... Rocky Mountain News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2147571/posts#comment Fri, 12 Dec 2008 15:34:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2138430/posts When deer hunting season opens this weekend, Wisconsin’s poor deer hunters are going to be at even more of a disadvantage than usual in their annual attempt to match wits with highly intelligent animals. This year, deer hunters are going to be burdened by carrying heaping armloads of guns into the woods with them. Deer hunters and other gun lovers have been absolutely terrified ever since Nov. 4 that President-elect Barack Obama is going to swoop down on their homes and confiscate all their guns. In a panic, thousands of gun owners have raced to their nearest gun dealers to... Gazette Extra http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2138430/posts#comment Wed, 26 Nov 2008 02:01:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2133416/posts With newspapers cutting back and predictions of even worse times ahead, Rupert Murdoch said the profession may still have a bright future if it can shake free of reporters and editors who he said have forfeited the trust and loyalty of their readers. "My summary of the way some of the established media has responded to the internet is this: it's not newspapers that might become obsolete. It's some of the editors, reporters, and proprietors who are forgetting a newspaper's most precious asset: the bond with its readers," said Murdoch, the chairman and chief executive officer of News Corp. He... CNet http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2133416/posts#comment Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:46:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2107801/posts NEW YORK – John McCain hung his final presidential debate performance on an Ohio plumber who campaign aides never vetted. A day after making Joseph Wurzelbacher famous, referencing him in the debate almost two dozen times as someone who would pay higher taxes under Barack Obama, McCain learned the fine print Thursday on the plumber’s not-so-tidy personal story: He owes back taxes. He is not a licensed plumber. And it turns out that Wurzelbacher makes less than $250,000 a year, which means he would receive a tax cut if Obama were elected president. McCain likes to say that he isn’t... Politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2107801/posts#comment Fri, 17 Oct 2008 06:08:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2088114/posts I know, I can't believe it either: Karl Rove, the legendary Republican strategist whose name has become synonymous with hard-ball campaign tactics, has asserted that both presidential campaigns have wandered too far from truth. "McCain has gone in his ads ... one step too far," Rove said on Fox News Sept. 14. "Sort of attributing to Obama things that are, you know, beyond the 100-percent-truth test." In recent weeks the McCain campaign has accused Barack Obama of advocating sex education in kindergarten. (In reality, Obama voted for a bill that called for warning young children about sexual predators.) The McCain... San Jose Mercury News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2088114/posts#comment Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:42:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2075683/posts <p>When it comes to GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, one thing both Democrats and Republicans agree on is that she's an attactive lady. So, when watching John McCain's acceptance speech last night, when the camera panned across Ms. Palin's seat next to her husband, Todd, My jaw dropped.</p> Dallas Morning News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2075683/posts#comment Sat, 6 Sep 2008 00:21:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1924079/posts Don't you hate Islamic Rage Boy? 'MoBlows', writing on the Jihad Watch website, certainly does. "I just want to put my fist down his throat," he says. The 'boy' in question rose to prominence earlier this year when he was photographed at a demonstration in Srinagar, capital of Indian-administered Kashmir. Later, he was spotted waving his fist at another camera during a protest against the awarding of a knighthood to author Salman Rushdie. With his straggly beard and big shouting mouth, Rage Boy certainly looks like a threat. His scary face now appears on boxer shorts and bumper stickers, and... The Daily Mail (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1924079/posts#comment Sun, 11 Nov 2007 12:29:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1915465/posts By now, almost everyone in America has heard of Jena, La., because they've all heard the story of the "Jena 6." White students hanging nooses barely punished, a schoolyard fight, excessive punishment for the six black attackers, racist local officials, public outrage and protests – the outside media made sure everyone knew the basics. There's just one problem: The media got most of the basics wrong. In fact, I have never before witnessed such a disgrace in professional journalism. Myths replaced facts, and journalists abdicated their solemn duty to investigate every claim because they were seduced by a powerfully appealing... Christian Science Monitor http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1915465/posts#comment Wed, 24 Oct 2007 05:58:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1906578/posts While serving in Iraq, I was captured and tortured by an insurgent group. As they say, I have "been there, done that". After my time in the service and after seeing the true nature of this occupation, I now am speaking out against this war and this administration. Rush Limbaugh calls me and my comrades that have chosen to take this stand "phoney soldiers". I urge Rep. John Murtha, Sen. Harry Reid and all true partiots in the Congress of the United States to pass legislation removing Mr. Limbaugh from the public airwaves... by force if necessary. Pfc. Adams during... Patriots Hopeful Of Next Election Year http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1906578/posts#comment Thu, 4 Oct 2007 17:50:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1896464/posts Send in the straightjackets - Newsweek has cracked up. Of all the stories in the entire world to cover, Newsweek's website is flagging as its "Top Story" an insane piece about a woman (complete with photo) who thinks she is an ordained Catholic priest. They found her in Missouri, though had Newsweek reporter Karen Springen walked into the nearest asylum, she would have found some who think they're the pope. Springen's discovery is Jessica Rowley. Jessica thinks she's a Catholic priest because some crackpot group said they ordained her. Springen, whose contempt for the Catholic Church is rivaled only by... Spero News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1896464/posts#comment Fri, 14 Sep 2007 14:30:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1887305/posts I definitely lost my ability to be bothered, shocked or amazed by the depth at which some of the greatest Western news agencies and media outlets are prepared to sink in their support to the enemies of their own civilization, last year almost to the day, when Reuters and its stringers cast smoke on Lebanon, and produced some of Hezbollywood's greatest blockbusters. The Dissident Frogman http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1887305/posts#comment Mon, 27 Aug 2007 19:15:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1883643/posts CNN Explores Religious Fundamentalism By DAVID BAUDER NEW YORK (AP) - Christiane Amanpour's work on the documentary series "God's Warriors" took her directly to intersections of extreme religious and secular thinking. She watched, fascinated, as demonstrators in San Francisco accused teenagers in the fundamentalist Christian group BattleCry of intolerance in a clash of two cultures that will probably never understand each other. Understanding is what Amanpour is trying to promote in "God's Warriors," which takes up six prime-time hours on CNN this week. The series on religious fundamentalism among Christians, Muslims and Jews airs in three parts, 9 p.m. EDT... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1883643/posts#comment Mon, 20 Aug 2007 04:39:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1883256/posts One can get an idea of just how far severe Bush Derangement Syndrome has spread in the MSM by reading this blog posted by Charles Feldman, a CNN correspondent from 1983 to 2004. Now freed from the constraints of pretending to be unbiased in public, Feldman lets his BDS hang out for all to see in The Feldman Blog edition of August 17, Hurricane Dean: God’s Wrath For President Bush? Hurricane Dean, soon to be up graded to a full blown Category 5 hurricane, is taking aim at Texas…the state that gave us George W. Bush. In fact,this could be a... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1883256/posts#comment Sun, 19 Aug 2007 01:46:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1881644/posts No matter what you think of Karl Rove -- or anyone else in politics -- please keep it to yourself, or at least falrly quiet. That was the message in a note sent to staffers at the Seattle Times by Executive Editor Dave Boardman after what he called "an awkward moment at yesterday's news meeting." What happened? According to Boardman in the latest email installment of what he calls "Dave's Raves" it was this: "When word came in of Karl Rove's resignation, several people in the meeting started cheering. That sort of expression is simply not appropriate for a newsroom....As... Editor & Publisher http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1881644/posts#comment Wed, 15 Aug 2007 19:09:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1881519/posts Terrorist Propaganda Picture of the Week. An elderly Iraqi woman shows two bullets which she says hit her house following an early coalition forces raid in the predominantly Shiite Baghdad suburb of Sadr City. AFP/Wissam al-Okaili http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1881519/posts#comment Wed, 15 Aug 2007 14:46:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1871241/posts <p>Two Daily Mirror journalists were arrested yesterday after attempting to plant a fake bomb on a train in what the newspaper called a "legitimate and justified journalistic experience". The reporters were arrested at Stonebridge Park depot in north-west London after railway staff noticed the men carrying fake equipment and approached them to ask what they were doing on the site before contacting the British Transport police to report the trespass.</p> The Guardian (of London) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1871241/posts#comment Wed, 25 Jul 2007 10:53:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1746722/posts The Iraqi Ministry of the Interior announced that it has captured the Baghdad sniper known as Ali Nazar al Jubori. The name sounds eerily familiar. al Jubori....could this be the original Juba sniper? That is the claim being made. Let me remind my readers that the "Juba the Baghdad sniper" does not exist--at least, not in the heroic sense that the jihadi crowd has painted him as. He's a myth. A piece of fictional propaganda produced by terrorists. A heroic superman for the al Qaeda supporters of the world. This is not to say that there never was an al... jawa report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1746722/posts#comment Fri, 1 Dec 2006 02:42:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1705713/posts Hanoi (dpa) - Vietnam's most famous war-time spy Pham Xuan An, who worked as a trusted reporter for Western news agencies in Saigon by day and sent secret reports to Hanoi by night, has died at age 79, his family said Thursday. During the war, An was known as a "dean of the Vietnamese press corps," a crack reporter who brought fantastic contacts and keen political analysis to his work for news organizations including Reuters, the Christian Science Monitor and finally TIME magazine. Bangkok Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1705713/posts#comment Thu, 21 Sep 2006 17:16:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1702331/posts By unwittingly angering Muslims with his comments on Islam, Pope Benedict XVI has shown that he has yet to shake off his academic theological roots and master the global media machine with the same deftness as his predecessor. In clinging to theology and orthodoxy, the bookish Benedict has shown little regard for media management in getting his message across, unlike the communications-savvy John Paul II. Benedict railed Muslims when he quoted a 14th-century Christian emperor who said the Prophet Mohammed had brought the world only "evil and inhuman" things, portraying the Islam he founded as a religion which endorses violence,... breitbart.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1702331/posts#comment Fri, 15 Sep 2006 22:04:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1696010/posts NEW YORK A not especially eventful press briefing at the White House today turned rancorous with NBC's David Gregory telling Press Secretary Tony Snow, "Don't point your finger at me," and Snow accusing the newsman of being "rude" and delivering Democratic talking points. Earlier, speaking to reporters, Snow, continuing the administration's media focus on the war on terror, accused "some in the Democratic Party" of saying "we shouldn't fight the war" and "we shouldn't apprehend al-Qaeda" or even "question al-Qaeda." Snow got into a tussle with Gregory after the NBC journalist told him, in a lengthy remark, that the public... Editor and Publisher http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1696010/posts#comment Tue, 5 Sep 2006 22:35:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1691070/posts LEX 18 News ended an evening recap of yesterday’s coverage of the Comair Flight 5191 crash for the live broadcast of the prime-time Emmy Awards. The annual TV awards show opened with shots of host Conan O’Brien bouncing inside a plane before it crashed on an island in a spoof of ABC’s hit show Lost. WLEX’s president and general manager, Tim Gilbert, who was home watching the telecast with his family, was “stunned” by the intro; if station managers had known about the intro before the broadcast, Lexington viewers wouldn’t have seen it, he said. “It was a live telecast... Hearld Leader http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1691070/posts#comment Mon, 28 Aug 2006 01:23:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/626020/posts Feb 11, 2002Pentagon Spokesmen Say Soldiers Justified in Barring Reporter From Attack Scene By Matt KelleyAssociated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - The Pentagon said Monday that U.S. soldiers were justified in keeping a newspaper reporter away from the scene of a deadly U.S. missile strike in Afghanistan. The officials said they didn't know if soldiers had threatened to shoot Washington Post reporter Doug Struck, as the Post reported. "We don't know the circumstances of what happened on the spot," Defense Department spokeswoman Victoria Clarke said at a news briefing. The newspaper reported Monday that U.S. soldiers held Struck at ... Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/626020/posts#comment Mon, 11 Feb 2002 22:26:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1637829/posts WASHINGTON - The U.S. Justice Department on Wednesday denied a report that the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dennis Hastert, is under investigation by the FBI in connection with a corruption probe.ABC News, citing high level Justice Department sources, said information implicating Hastert had been developed from convicted lobbyists who are now cooperating with the government.But department officials, who asked to not be identified, said the story was not accurate and that Hastert was not under investigation. "The story is wrong. Hastert is not under investigation," one official said. Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1637829/posts#comment Thu, 25 May 2006 00:39:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1590234/posts The Bush administration, seeking to limit leaks of classified information, has launched initiatives targeting journalists and their possible government sources. The efforts include several FBI probes, a polygraph investigation inside the CIA and a warning from the Justice Department that reporters could be prosecuted under espionage laws. In recent weeks, dozens of employees at the CIA, the National Security Agency and other intelligence agencies have been interviewed by agents from the FBI's Washington field office, who are investigating possible leaks that led to reports about secret CIA prisons and the NSA's warrantless domestic surveillance program, according to law enforcement and... WP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1590234/posts#comment Sun, 5 Mar 2006 05:27:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1586841/posts Harry Whittington tried to calm the furor on Friday, but we must not let him. Leaving the hospital, he expressed regret for Dick Cheney’s troubles over what he considered a simple hunting accident at a friend’s ranch. But it was so much more. It was a violation of the public’s right to know. Apologists for Dick Cheney argue that the public was informed of the accident, but it took almost 20 hours — almost an entire news cycle! The Sunday morning talk shows, deprived of what was rightfully their story, were tragically forced to discuss the National Security Agency and... New York Times via Neshoba Democrat http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1586841/posts#comment Tue, 28 Feb 2006 06:48:15 GMT