Posted on 07/28/2005 11:45:51 AM PDT by West Coast Conservative
She only became a columnist recently(within the last 5 yrs or so), before that she was the White House reporter for UPI. After UPI was bought by the parent company of the Washington Times(owned by the Moonies), she left, not wanting to be associated with the WashTimes/Moonies.
She was then hired by Hearst as an op-ed columnist.
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0880200.html
Helen Thomas
White House correspondent
Born: 8/4/1920
Birthplace: Winchester, Kentucky
After graduating from Wayne University, Thomas went to Washington, DC. In 1943 she began working for United Press International, (UPI), a news wire service providing articles to newspapers around the country. Thomas was hired to write stories of interest to women. She broke into political reporting in 1961, when she began filing stories about the Kennedy administration. Since then, she has covered eight presidents. In 1970 she became UPI's White House correspondent. In 1972 she was the only print journalist to go on President Nixon's historic trip to China. She also traveled with presidents Ford, Carter, Reagan, and Bush, and covered every presidential economic summit. Thomas was the first woman officer of the National Press Club, the White House Correspondents Association, and the first woman member of the Gridiron Club. She became the first female White House bureau chief of a wire service in 1974. As her career advanced, Thomas came to be considered the “dean of the Washington press corps,” and she was allowed to ask the first question at presidential press conferences. At the end of her first presidential press conference in 1961, Thomas said, “Thank you, Mr. President,” establishing a tradition that continues today. She has written two books, Dateline: White House and Front Row at the White House: My Life and Times. Thomas left UPI in 2000 when it was purchased by News World Communications, Inc., an affiliate of the Unification Church.
Okay, was she not the whole enchilada for UPI? Covering Presidents, that is. Did she not put whatever she wanted in her pieces, whether it be "news" or "opinion/commentary"? Just asking. From somewhere, I got an impression of her that her role was not aptly described by limiting it to the word "reporter". I do know that her pieces now are nothing but opinion hit pieces, vile and traitorous as they are (in MY OWN OPINION).
Just read her bio in post 181 and you'll see that she was NOT an op-ed columnist for UPI at the White House. She was a White House Correspondent (reporter, NOT columnist). Her stories, loaded with bias and opinion as they were, wer SUPPOSED to be straight news for all those years.
It was only when she moved to Hearst in 2000 that she started to write OPENLY as an opinion journalist.
Google searches are your friend. They can help you learn the FACTS, BEFORE you post your opinions.
Not only that, but she vowed to kill herself if Teddy Roosevelt ever became president.
run dick, run!
Was I wearing a hat?
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