Thursday, April 9, 2009

Thursday April 9 -- Got news or a question?

If you have news or a question, leave it in comments.
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26 comments:

Anonymous said...

G.D. Gearino and N.C Press Association ad - We should have guessed he would get right to the point.
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“The ad only reinforces the belief that while everyone else has embraced the digital age, newspapers are for the geriatric set. It also reinforces the belief that senior citizens are hopeless old fogies who can’t use computers. But worst of all, it suggests that readers need public notices to “find out what’s going on at city hall.”

http://gearino.com/index.php/2009/04/07/really-its-not-about-the-money

Anonymous said...

Detained American Journalist in Tehran Charged with Espionage-

“Saberi is being held in Evin prison, north of the capital Tehran. Earlier, the Foreign Ministry said she had engaged in "illegal" activities because she continued working in Iran after the government revoked her press credentials in 2006.”
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I don’t feel sorry for this journalist. She knew her press credentials were revoked, her arrogance in ignoring the laws is not surprising. She was filing stories for National Public Radio, (NPR) and that tells you about all you need to know. Let her set in a prison in Iran for a few years. She may come to love the USA and the freedoms we enjoy. She may even write a fair account of the news for NPR. No, that is going too far.
www.editorandpublisher.com

Anonymous said...

That's idiotic.

Anonymous said...

@5:03

You're lining yourself up with the Islamofascists. If you love Iran -- America's enemy -- and its totalitarian society so much, move to Tehran. Or you might try Cuba.

Anonymous said...

She knew the law and made her choice. Crying now that she got caught is phony. Let her take her punishment. Iran isn't Kansas, now is it Toto? The USA should not spend one dime on her.

Anonymous said...

The NPR’s own ugly American. I would rather she stay in Iran actually. She probably ignores our laws here as well. Of course, not paying your taxes is just an oversight these days, so the laws have become selective, she may make that oversight line work in Iran.

Anonymous said...

Iran is part of the Axis of Evil.

You are traitors.

Anonymous said...

@ Instapundit
-The curious case of 200 nearly identical MSM headlines-
The following headlines have appeared in newspapers within the last 24 hours. This is not an inclusive list.

Sample: • Third of Illinoisans went without health insurance in last 2 years: Sun-Times
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Then the blogger offers some facts from the Census Bureau. Odd the MSM writing over 200 articles didn’t find the time to check it out. Still in-the-tank, and we are suppose to excuse dishonest journalism?
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Data from the Census Bureau debunks the lie continually promoted by the mainstream media of the legendary 47 million uninsured Americans:
• 9.5 million people are illegal aliens
• 8.3 million uninsured people are those who make between $50,000 and $74,999 per year and choose not to purchase insurance
• 8.7 million uninsured people are those who make over $75,000 a year and choose not to purchase insurance.

This leaves approximately 20 million uninsured; less than 7% of the population. Why do some people choose not to purchase insurance? 60 percent reported being in "excellent health or very good health" and purposefully decided not to buy insurance.

Anonymous said...

Late yesterday on another thread I noticed this excerpt, “..the Times wants to do away with lifetime job guarantees for Globe employees who were on board when the Taylor family sold the paper to the Times in 1993.”
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If that was part of the contract, wouldn’t they have to buy out these people at some higher amount, or face a lawsuit? Something about that statement seems just too ruthless to me.

Anonymous said...

8:11 AM Why would they have to do that? The choice is to either close down or renegotiate the contract thus signing away previous terms and conditions.

If they sign the conditions away, there isn't much room for a lawsuit considering that they agreed to it. If they don't sign off on it, the business closes shop. What good is it to sue a turnip?

Even if they successfully managed to transfer their complaint to the NY TIMES, how many years do you think a fired employee is going to be able to afford to fight the corporate lawyers who work for the Times? It will be strung out for 10 years at least. By that time all the plaintiffs will have moved on, ran out of money and the will to fight. The Times lawyers are getting paid anyway, so they certainly will not be in a hurry for resolution.

Anonymous said...

I LOVE IRAN!!! WOOOOO!

If you don't, YOU are a traitor!

Luv, The Reverse Ann Coulter.

Anonymous said...

I'm all confused. Are the right-wingers with the mullahs or against them?

Or ... are they the same people? You can hide a lot under a big, fake beard.

Personally, I think Walter Cronkite and Andy Rooney should have been jailed for reporting from B-17s in 1943. After all, they were breaking German law during those air raids. And they didn't have Germany's permission to report!

Anonymous said...

I'm all confused. Are the right-wingers with the mullahs or against them?

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It is actually very simple. Right wingers are against them.

Liberals are for them, but only because a) They hate America too and B) Because they hope that they will be eaten last.

Where you get confused is because the Iranian's have arrested a leftist which the right wingers have no love for in the first place.

It's kind of like Bernie Madoff. Sure he is a crook, but he was a leftist crook, ripping off other leftists and their leftist propaganda special interests. (ex: JEHT Foundation) A leftist preying on leftist can't be all bad in the eyes of a right winger.

Anonymous said...

Hitler preyed on a lot of leftists and homosexuals. So you would see an upside there?

It's really not much wonder the right wing is cracking up so badly in this country.

Anonymous said...

There's a huge difference:

Hitler imprisoned, tortured and gassed leftists.

Iran just imprisons and tortures them.

What's not to love?

Anonymous said...

I think McClatchy has some sort arrangements with former KR so-called journalists. They farmed them out all around the country to write their garbage. Why else are these keeping these high salaried pro-Hamas people around? I would like to know the salary of KC Star writer Yael T. Abouhalkah. In my opinion, he is transparently biased, and utterly absurd in most of his rants. I would think there might have been a contract deal.

Anonymous said...

Poor little lefty says, “I'm all confused.” And, that is news to who?

Anonymous said...

KANSAS CITY STAR ERRORS ADDING UP...

How would you like to volunteer your time to sell souvenir editions of the Kansas City Star on a street corner and see your name misspelled in the newspaper sponsoring the event?
That was the case throughout a 1/2-page ad in the Star (4/9) highlighting "Greater Kansas City Day." The event is held annually the morning of the KC Royals home opener to help raise funds for the Rotary Club.
"Not sure how to spell Boerigter? Check out an old Chiefs media guide," noted a reader. "FOUR errors in one ad - that's laughable."
Aside from the ones highlighted above the ad misspelled former KC Day chair Paul Splittorff.

@Bottom Line Communications

Anonymous said...

Hitler preyed on a lot of leftists and homosexuals. So you would see an upside there?

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There is always an upside to any given situation. You simply have to look for it.

Hitler also embraced eugenics just as today's more enlightened leftists do. Is it murder? Of course it is. Am I concerned? Of course I am. Is there an upside to it? Well, 50 million dead leftists is nothing to sneeze at you know.

Am I required to be appalled by what you all do to your own? I don't think so. Not yet anyway.

Anonymous said...

yeah she deserves what she gets. going to Iran...bleh.. not like journalist are being sent to other places in the world like say Canada...but really that does not make good right wing news. Lets focus on Iran.

Hmm let me see, a party full of non tax paying fools or a party that will send our brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, friends to antother country that did not attack us to kill and be killed.

it is a tough choice, i do love seeing billy bob shoot. And after all Obama is practily in bed with cuba whom is our biggest threat at the moment, should drop some bombs on them there evil sons of a bitches.

Anonymous said...

I really think some of these folks would see you die just for voting for OBAMA. And we call IRAN the axis of evil......

Anonymous said...

I think people are missing the point about the journalist in prison in Iran. She lost her press credentials in 2006. Then she continued to poke around as if she was still a journalist. Iran has their own rule of law. They think she is a spy. If she wanted to stay in Iran as a journalist she should have updated her credentials. Why didn’t she? Her parents can pay for an attorney, and let the case go where it will in Iran. Her choices were to have the proper papers to work in Iran, or become a tourist. Now, she will find out the consequences of making poor choices in another country.

Anonymous said...

Society of Professional Journalists
Fact sheet on Foreign Press Credentials

“In countries where the government might place restrictions on foreign reporters, you need to weigh those limitations against the consequences of being caught without proper accreditation. In the end it’s a decision only you can make, but when dealing with the police, armed forces or other officials it’s almost always better to have official accreditation.”

http://www.spj.org/ijcredentials.asp

Anonymous said...

Iran, people. It's Iran. Our enemy. A totalitarian Islamic state. Part of Bush's Axis of Evil, sworn enemy to Israel and America.

This reporter is a former Miss North Dakota.

You right wingers are welcome to support the Islamofascists. You never saw a tyrant you couldn't love.

Me? I'm going with the beauty queen.

Anonymous said...

Who are these people who think we should be kissing Iran's ass anyway? Not conservatives of principle, that's for sure. They are appeasers, and a disgrace to the movement and their country.

I don't give a good goddamn if the prisoner is an NPR reporter or Joe the Plumber. No Iranian needs to be locking up Americans on some bullshit espionage charge.

Any American who tries to justify it needs to find himself some other country.

Anonymous said...

North Korea two weeks ago snatched up two TV reporters from Al Gore's channel who were reporting on that Communist dictatorship.

Any of you traitors want to defend North Korea? Any of you want to step up for the Dear Leader?

How about Daniel Pearl? Was he stupid to be covering terrorism? Should he have asked permission from someone? C'mon, you traitors, tell me how he deserved to be beheaded.

Anyone who stands up to defend a totalitarian's power over an American of any political stripe needs to be stripped of his citizenship. You don't deserve it.

Get out of my country.