Saturday, June 20, 2009

Saturday June 20 -- Got news or an update?

If you have news or an update, leave it in comments.
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13 comments:

John Altevogt said...

Many folks in this area have followed the story in the alternative media and on Fox News of a local teacher whose contract was not renewed allegedly because of his conservative views.

The teacher, Tim Latham, worked for the Lawrence, KS school district. Lawrence is the home of the University of Kansas and one of the few liberal strongholds in Kansas.

This morning I noticed a story in The Star by Joe Lambe that took quite a unique view of what happened. Indeed, in all of the other coverage that I read, I had read nothing that even mentioned the event that was the centerpiece of The Star story.

The Star's story is here;

http://www.kansascity.com/637/story/1263192.html

compare it to the headlines on the rest of the stories being written by running a google search "Tim Latham teacher"

Interestingly enough, the "journalist" who wrote the story should be a little more sensitive to people who lose their jobs. He lost his at The Star in one of the first purges, but was hired back. One can only hope that when he loses his job the next time that someone will remember how he handled this story and remind people what a schmuck he was.

Anonymous said...

‘Change you can believe in’ - Ah yes, anyone still fainting at those soaring teleprompter speeches?
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B Hussein O says, Go gas up the jet. My big Mrs. needs a night out, and she has a hankering for Chicago deep dish pizza.

Sir, that pizza would cost the taxpayers $300,500.00, and times are hard for the little people, how would that look?

Well then, fly the pizza man here, and he can make my big Bling Bling her favorite food. That will save thousands, right?

Anonymous said...

ABC Self-Nationalizes For Obama
Investor's Business Daily

As much of the U.S. private sector, including health care providers, resists government takeovers, what a sorry sight to see [ABC News leap forward to make itself a propaganda arm of the government.](snip) crosses the line from journalism to advocacy in Wednesday, on every show from "Good Morning America"(snip)to a prime-time special called "Prescription for America"(snip) the network will puff the Obama administration's trillion-dollar plan to nationalize U.S. health care.

Anonymous said...

“Minority patient-dumping in Chicago”? Surely Mrs. Zero knows nothing about it!
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-The Obamacare horror story you won’t hear-

The White House, Democrats, and MoveOn liberals are spreading health care sob stories to sell a government takeover. But there’s one health care policy nightmare you won’t hear the Obamas hyping. It’s a tale of poor, minority patient-dumping in Chicago — with First Lady Michelle Obama’s fingerprints all over it.
http://michellemalkin.com/

Anonymous said...

Here's a Boston Herald-type story that doesn't appear to be in the Herald

Eagle-Tribune

Boston Herald crime reporter O'Ryan Johnson has been charged with kicking a 74-year-old man with emphysema in the chest at a laundromat. The 33-year-old newsman, who has a story (but not about this) in Friday's paper, tells the Eagle-Tribune that "I am not commenting on advice of counsel."
@ Poynter Online

Anonymous said...

"We bought it for the newspapers" - Private equity firm didn't buy Blethen Maine Newspapers for the real estate?

WSJ.com
Private Equity Beat
"We bought it for the newspapers, we intend to operate the newspapers, and the investment thesis is that the upside will come from the newspaper assets," says Peter S. Brodsky of HM Capital Partners. ["However, the real estate aspect of the transaction helped us get comfortable with the downside.] If all doesn't go well, we felt there was some value to the real estate –it helped us secure financing, as banks certainly were interested in learning what downside was."

Anonymous said...

Murdoch Now Struggles Online

Rupert Murdoch was hailed as a visionary when he paid the then-bargain price of $580 million for MySpace in 2005, but now it appears that the newspaper mogul may not know that much about running an Internet community after all.

MySpace just laid off 400 employees in the US and could cut another 100 internationally. That would amount to more than 15% of the company’s 3,000-employee workforce.
http://www.newspaperdeathwatch.com/

Anonymous said...

EITHER HIS KOOL-AID WORE OFF, OR HE REALIZES HE WON'T HAVE LIFETIME EMPLOYMENT SHORTLY.

Boston Herald crime reporter O'Ryan Johnson has been charged with kicking a 74-year-old man with emphysema in the chest at a laundromat. The 33-year-old newsman, who has a story (but not about this) in Friday's paper, tells the Eagle-Tribune that "I am not commenting on advice of counsel."

GREAT STORY, AND OF COURSE NO ONE ELSE WILL PRINT IT (THREE WHEEL lokeman ANYONE?)

Anonymous said...

Does anyone else think editor Julie Shirley of The Bellingham Herald should go? She has run the paper into the ground.

Anonymous said...

Our intrepid and invaluable source of news around the world, the MSM, decides not to bore their viewers with dull news from Iran, but MUST bring you the breathless breaking news of the Obama Ice Cream run.

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/288810.php

Anonymous said...

I've been reading about Iran daily for weeks in my newspaper. You must be reading the wrong newspaper. If your newspaper is ignoring Iran, try The New York Times online, or just about any other major newspaper online.

Anonymous said...

The Tweet and the Twit

Contrast between the Change for Iran Tweets and Professional Reporter Mark Knoller of CBS News Tweets

http://hotair.com/archives/2009/06/20/contrast-iranian-protestors-shot-as-obama-goes-for-ice-cream/

Anonymous said...

Obama is bowing to the Mullahs along with the Saudis.

However, he's going out for custard. And then the media wonders why it's dying.