Thursday, July 2, 2009

Thursday July 2 -- Got news or an update?

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26 comments:

Anonymous said...

Talk about the media fraud being perpetrated on the American people, this bullshit has gone on far too long. Wake up people, and smell the stink!

@ Politico: Washington Post sells access, $25,000+ For a price, the Washington Post offers lobbyists off-the-record access to 'those powerful few.'

For $25,000 to $250,000, The Washington Post is offering lobbyists and association executives off the record, non-confrontational access to "those powerful few" — Obama administration officials, members of Congress, and the paper’s own reporters and editors.
The astonishing offer is detailed in a flier circulated Wednesday to a health-care lobbyist, who provided it to a reporter because the lobbyist said he feels it’s a conflict for the paper to charge for access to, as the flier says, its “health care reporting and editorial staff."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0709/24441.html#ixzz0K6gc2bIX&C

Anonymous said...

When the old leftist Helen Thomas accuses her beloved 'Halfrican' of being non-transparent, you can believe the press honeymoon has a beginning crack.

White House Reporters Grill Gibbs Over ‘Prepackaged’ Questions for Obama

"The point is the control from here. We have never had that in the White House. And we have had some control but not this control. I mean I'm amazed, I'm amazed at you people who call for openness and transparency and you have controlled..." veteran White House reporter Helen Thomas said Wednesday.

Editor's note: On 'The B-Cast' today we examine the Gibb's briefing and then compare it with what happened at the Obama town hall meeting. The link is in the related section below.
The C-SPAN video @
http://www.breitbart.tv/white-house-reporters-grill-gibbs-over-selected-questions-for-obama/

Anonymous said...

Gannett cutting 1,400 jobs at local papers
Agence France-Presse, by Staff

WASHINGTON-- USA Today owner Gannett Co., the biggest newspaper chain in the United States, announced plans on Wednesday to cut some 1,400 jobs at its local newspapers.(Snip) The cuts were not expected to affect Gannett flagship paper USA Today, the largest daily in the United States in terms of circulation.(Snip) Gannett reported a nearly 60 percent plunge in net profit in the first three months of this year and a 34 percent slump in advertising
Via Lucianne.com

Anonymous said...

'Halfrican'

What relevance does race have to any of this?

Anonymous said...

Consider a 50% jump in travel expenses since Democrats took control of Congress two years ago, at a cost of $13 million.

Message to the little people,
“Let them eat cake”
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Congress's Travel Tab Swells
Wall Street Journal, by Brody Mullins & T.W. Farnum

WASHINGTON -- Spending by lawmakers on taxpayer-financed trips abroad has risen sharply in recent years, a Wall Street Journal analysis of travel records shows, involving everything from war-zone visits to trips to exotic spots such as the Galápagos Islands. (Snip) Hundreds of lawmakers traveled overseas in 2008 at a cost of about $13 million. That's a 50% jump since Democrats took control of Congress two years ago.

Anonymous said...

Helen Thomas used to drip with venom when she asked her outright hostile questions of President Bush or his press secretaries. I used to wonder why an old senile person was allowed such undignified journalistic leeway. If she questions the “Debt President” like this, her senility will probably be pointed out by liberals to remove her from the White House Press ‘Corpse’.

Anonymous said...

Hey kids! Should you go into print journalism?
To: Mary Schmich
From: Eric Zorn

Like you, I'm sure, I regularly get letters from high school and college students asking for career advice.
They used to ask what steps they should take to become a newspaper columnist. But that's changed. More and more in the last several years, they've been asking me if I think there's enough of a future in print journalism that it makes sense to aim for a career in newspapers
[snip]
Lately, however, [to avoid mentor malpractice lawsuits] down the road, I've been adding a stern caveat: Have a Plan B. Cultivate skills and areas of expertise as a fallback. Lay the academic groundwork for an alternate career, just in case.
http://blogs.chicagotribune.com/news_columnists_ezorn/2009/06/hey-kids-should-you-go-into-print-journalism-.html

Anonymous said...

The term halfrican was used because this is obv a republican who is still whining that the better man won.

Anonymous said...

What relevance does race have to any of this?
About the same relevance as calling President Bush ‘Chimpears’ or ‘Cowboy’, without the advantage of making every critical remark of Obama somehow racist. The blogs are full of pet names for Obama. In the freedom of speech mode, I can use the pet name for Obama I choose. You don’t have to agree, but you do not have the right to question me and my freedom of speech rights. What is not relevant to you, is to me. It is as simple as that. Maybe we should revisit some of the caustic pet names for Governor Palin as well. You are a hypocrite to pick and choose who can use pet names.

Anonymous said...

Here is just some of the pet names used by liberals for President Bush. I think we may be able to recycle ‘Emperor Chimpatine’, perhaps our poster can tell how these names were relevant to anything.

The progressives have a lot of names for President George W. Bush:
Dubya, Bushie, Shrub, Chimp, Smirky, Bushitler, Chickenhawk One, Hitlerburton, Chimpowitz, Rove's Puppet, Cowboy Hitlerstein, AWOL McPsycho, Bushollini, Cheney's Sock Puppet, Chimpy McDrunkard, Darth Moron, Toxic Texan, Dim Son, Drinky McCokeSpoon, Emperor Chimpatine, Fearful Leader, Herr Bush, Moron-in-Chief, and Satan's Monkey.

Anonymous said...

Smaller dailies not the hoped for niche markets? This in not good news.
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Inland Study Finds Profit Eroding Fastest in Smaller Dailies
The small community daily is no longer immune from the forces that have ravaged profitability at big-city papers, according to a study released Wednesday by the Inland Press Association. On average, the operating profit dips were in double-digit and even triple-digit percentages.
E & P

Anonymous said...

"Happy Independence Day, America! Try not to feel bad that the newspapers in your old colonizer, Europe, are doing a lot better than yours."
Fitz & Jen

Euro Newspapers Surviving
Javier Espinoza,
UBS analysts say European newspapers will get 100% of lost revenues back.

Anonymous said...

‘Halfrican’ is the perfect pet name for Obama. The fawning media kept calling him the first African American President when he is not. Obama is a mixed race, white/black person. In the drumbeat/echo press before the election there was a daily blurb about the white racists that would not vote for a black, but never a mention about him being only half-black. To mention that his father was a Muslim, or that his middle name was Hussein was forbidden by the DNC which translated meant all the corrupted MSM. Selected facts and reporting by the so-called watchdog media has placed them in the garbage heap they continue to wallow in today. The stench from them almost requires a gasmask to read their made-up news.
Moo Stan

Anonymous said...

First, kill the lawyers – before they kill the news

Following the frighteningly dangerous thinking of Judge Richard Posner – proposing rewriting copyright law to outlaw linking to and summarizing (aka talking about) news stories – now we have two more lemming lawyers following him off the cliff in a column written by the Cleveland Plain Dealer’s Connie Schultz.
First note well that Schultz is married to U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown as she calls on her newspapers and employer (my former employer, Advance Publications) and fellow columnists to influence Congress to remake copyright. She should be registered as a lobbyist. No joke.
Jeff Jarvis at BuzzMachine

There is an excellent reply post by Walter Abbott, who I think also posts on this blog. The comments are worth reading if copyright issues are of interest.

Anonymous said...

'Halfrican'

What relevance does race have to any of this?

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I really don't know, but it was important to you when he was running for election. Remember? "You're about to be ruled by the black man."

So tell me, now that he is living up to his expected level of failure and his polls are dropping like a stone, is it time to once again tell us how it doesn't matter?

Anonymous said...

***You don’t have to agree, but you do not have the right to question me and my freedom of speech rights.***


7:45, who questioned your freedom of speech rights? All the poster asked was what relevance race had to do with a previous comment. And why doesn't anyone with free speech rights have the right to question anyone else with free speech rights?

Anonymous said...

Gannett to cut 1,400 jobs in new round of cuts.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090701/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gannett_layoffs;_ylt=Asj2D0S7wcm_lmr556Qcj8Z0fNdF

Good god, the story is not the story here. Click on buzz and read the comments!

Anonymous said...

The fact that most nutters still believe BO was born in africa or prays to the east is what makes us feel sorry for them.

Anonymous said...

When the rabid Helen Thomas criticizes the Obamababoon, it shows how despicable that man truly is.

It's just too bad the US military hasn't done what the Honduras military did.

Anonymous said...

The fact that most nutters still believe BO was born in africa or prays to the east is what makes us feel sorry for them.



You're of course referring to his grandmothers and other family members that swore it is true?

Nope, we sure can't believe them, can we!

I wonder why he is spending millions to prevent the release of the document that would prove it one way or another?

Truth Hurts said...

"What relevance does race have to any of this?"

The people who have made race relevant are those who refer to any criticism of Obama as racist.

Here is a wonderful example of a person to whom race is apparently quite relevant:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=channel_page&v=-HW2efzNvrM

Anonymous said...

when fox news says BO was born in africa I will then start believing it.

Anonymous said...

If there are no worries for Obama, he should ask Congress to pass the bill that asks each presidential candidate to provide his/her birth certificate.

Doubtful he will.

Anonymous said...

If there are no worries for Obama, he should ask Congress to pass the bill that asks each presidential candidate to provide his/her birth certificate.
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Kind of tough for him to do while he is spending millions to prevent providing his own.

Anonymous said...

Where is Obammy's welfare, illegal alien, auntie? Word is she can blackmail her way into the USA, by threatening to tell the truth about where he was born. She knows, what she knows! Also, why are his college entrance papers sealed? Because he applied for out-of Africa exchange student perks? Good questions, why is he blocking all the answers? We need the ADN tactics, answer these rumors, or we will print them as truth!

Anonymous said...

If you want a good laugh, go onto a liberal blog and ask what they think of our president being called ‘Emperor Chimpatine’? After they foam at the month about racism and all the other stock talking points they use, go back and tell them you meant when the Democrats called President Bush that cute name. Too funny! Hypocrites all!