This is a historic moment. The editor/publisher is still on medical leave, with virtually no staff, so publishing his prepared remarks emailed from the office of the White House press secretary is not an indulgence in poor journalism.
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Posts Tagged ‘Barack Obama’
Van Jones Shouldn’t Have Resigned Nor Apologized
Sunday, September 6th, 2009Jones, President Barack Obama’s appointed advisor on “green jobs,” resigned in the wake of incendiary ranting from rabid right-wing news types like Glenn Beck about Jones’ statements regarding Republicans and his signing a 2004 letter suggesting that former President George W. Bush might have knowingly allowed the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to occur in order to use them to go to war.
Sherrod Story Raises Question: How Many Breitbart Frauds Will Media Fall For?
Saturday, July 24th, 2010“The lesson of Shirley Sherrod’s disgraceful treatment by right-wing and not-so-right-wing media (followed by her equally squalid dismissal by an administration that took that media at face value) boils down to a single question: When will journalists see Andrew Breitbart as the serial promoter of journalistic frauds that he is, rather than as a legitimate source for story ideas?”
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