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Journalists Society Abolishes Helen Thomas Award
By Lisa Flam - AOL NewsThe Society of Professional Journalists is retiring the Helen Thomas Lifetime Achievement Award, saying controversy over her remarks on Israel has overtaken the reason behind the honor. The move comes eight months after Thomas, 90, the former longtime White House correspondent, made remarks condemned as anti-Semitic and lost her job with Hearst Newspapers. Paul J. Richards, AFP/Getty Images The Society of Professional Journalists is discontinuing the Helen Thomas Lifetime Achievement Award, named after the former longtime White House correspondent. "To continue offering the award ...
Journalist Helen Thomas Hired to Write for Newspaper in Virginia
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyHelen Thomas, the 90-year-old pioneering female journalist who lost her job last June over comments about Israel labeled as anti-Semitic, has resurfaced as a columnist with the Falls Church News-Press, a suburban weekly paper across the Potomac River from Washington. The News-Press announced the hire Thursday, saying Thomas would write a weekly political affairs column online and in the print edition. Owner-editor Nicholas F. Benton said Thomas' earlier remarks were "intemperate and inappropriate." But he said, "She is progressive, and following my more than eight hours of direct, one-on-one ...
2010 News Quotes Quiz: Who Said It? [ANSWERS]
By not in system - AOL NewsHere are the answers to the 2010 Quotes Quiz with details about who said what and why -- plus some information on the people who didn't say these things, but might have. 1. "There's no one who wants this thing over more than I do. You know, I'd like my life back." Answer: C. Tony Hayward All three of the newsmakers we listed surely said this to themselves at some point during this difficult year. In June, Gen. David Petraeus was suddenly given the thankless task of running the war in Afghanistan after Gen. Stanley McCrystal got the boot for deriding administration officials in a Rolling ...
Helen Thomas Stands by Her Previous Israel Criticisms, Makes New Ones
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailySix months after the uproar that led to her forced retirement, Helen Thomas once again courted controversy, standing by her earlier comments on Israel and going further to claim that Zionists control U.S. policy, the Detroit Free Press reported Friday. Thomas, a member of the White House press corps for 50 years, doubled down on her criticisms of Israel during a speech Thursday in Dearborn, Mich., on the topic of money in politics. "Congress, the White House and Hollywood, Wall Street are owned by the Zionists. No question, in my opinion," Thomas, 90, told an audience of about 300 during a ...
We're All Juan Williams Now
By Paul Wachter - AOL NewsOPINION (Oct. 21) -- NPR just fired news analyst Juan Williams, one of the most gifted speakers I've seen in person. I've only seen him once, more than a decade ago. I was a senior in high school and visiting Earlham College, a small liberal arts college founded by Quakers in Indiana, and Williams happened to be speaking on campus. (Williams had attended Haverford, another Quaker school.) I recognized his name from PBS' "Eyes on the Prize," a powerful documentary about the civil rights years, for which Williams wrote a slim companion book. It was my first visit to a prospective college, ...
Helen Thomas on Being Anti-Semitic: 'Baloney!'
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MARION, Ohio (Oct. 12) -- In a radio interview, former White House correspondent Helen Thomas acknowledges she touched a nerve with remarks about Israel that led to her retirement. But she says the comments were "exactly what I thought," even though she realized soon afterward that it was the end of her job. "I hit the third rail. You cannot criticize Israel in this country and survive," Thomas told Ohio station WMRN-AM in a sometimes emotional 35-minute interview that aired Tuesday. It was recorded a week earlier by WMRN reporter Scott Spears at Thomas' Washington, D.C., condominium. Paul ...
Helen Thomas' Front-Row Seat Goes to AP; Fox News Moves Up
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyIt's like being back in elementary school again in the White House briefing room: Some seating assignments have finally changed in the wake of Helen Thomas' retirement earlier this summer. The Associated Press has gotten Thomas' front-row-center seat, with Fox News moving up to the front row, ensconced in AP's old seat. NPR shifts to the second-row seat previously held by Fox. The changes were approved by the board of the White House Correspondents Association. "It was a very difficult decision," the board said in a statement, noting that it "received requests from Bloomberg and NPR ...
Fox Gets Front-Row Seat in White House Press Room
By not in system - AOL NewsNEW YORK (Aug. 1) -- Fox News Channel has been granted a much-coveted front-row seat in the White House briefing room. The White House Correspondents Association said Sunday that The Associated Press' reporter has been moved to the front-row center seat previously occupied by Helen Thomas. Fox's correspondent will take the AP's former front-row seat, and National Public Radio's correspondent will move up one row to Fox's old second-row seat. The center seat was long held by Thomas, a United Press International and Hearst News Service writer. The 89-year-old columnist resigned abruptly in ...
Mel Gibson as Metaphor for What Ails America
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyOK. Here's my guilty summer confession: I can't get enough of the Mel Gibson scandal. Let me preface this post by saying that I'm hardly one for celebrity gossip. I have no idea who Justin Bieber is. I don't care whether Jennifer Aniston wants kids or not. And despite former Politics Daily colleague Emily Miller's compelling argument for why we should all be taking The National Enquirer more seriously, I can't stomach tabloids. Still, when it comes to the ongoing Mel Gibson saga, I can't look away. And I suspect I'm not alone. And that's because Gibson embodies a whole bunch of different ...
The 'JournoList' Controversy, Fox News and the 'Helen Thomas Seat'
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyRecently, The Daily Caller revealed that liberal academics and journalists on the now-defunct "JournoList" (a supposedly off-the-record listserv where liberal and left-leaning writers would share ideas) suggested using government power to take down Fox News. That alone would have been newsworthy. But it turns out that one of the journalists disparaging Fox News in e-mails was Michael Scherer of Time magazine. And unlike the other Fox critics on the JournoList, Scherer may actually be in a position to use his authority to hurt Fox News. In this case, Scherer could potentially help block Fox ...
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