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Avoiding Criticism: CNN Shuts Down Anti-Tea Party Reporter's Email Address
Publius' Forum ^ | 4/17/09 | Warner Todd Huston

Posted on 04/17/2009 6:42:41 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus

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To: Mobile Vulgus

We need a links page!We used to have one,what happened?This is a great little site.They`re linked to use,gotta bookmark these guys.


21 posted on 04/17/2009 7:13:53 AM PDT by nomad
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To: Mobile Vulgus

If she would of been a Conservative reporter at a Lib protest...she might be reporting from a hospital bed.


22 posted on 04/17/2009 7:16:27 AM PDT by wolfcreek ("unnamed "right-wing extremist")
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To: Mobile Vulgus

The right needs to do a hit piece on her like the left did on Palin!


23 posted on 04/17/2009 7:17:58 AM PDT by classified
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To: Mobile Vulgus

So, in addition to being a dishonest and hypocritical left-wing shill, she is a coward as well.


24 posted on 04/17/2009 7:18:34 AM PDT by La Lydia
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To: MichiganCheese
"Just send emails to all the other addresses at cnn. Eventually, the coworkers will tire of being inundated with them as well."

Excellent suggestion; in-fact, simply superb. ;^)

25 posted on 04/17/2009 7:22:13 AM PDT by Landru (Arghh, Liberals are trapped in my colon like spackle or paste.)
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To: Right Cal Gal
"Yeah...the Fox Network - which has night ratings equal to the population of the three Bay Area counties, while you have yet to hit a ratings number equal to a large California town..."

Nicely summed up. :^)

Fact is this CNN gal simply didn't *sound* that smart, to me.
I half-suspect she was [being] egged-on, "coached" by one or more pony-tailed imbeciles sitting inside a CNN trailer somewhere close by.

The irony to that of course is those are the same pony-tailed idiots who'd bash those living in trailers.

26 posted on 04/17/2009 7:29:04 AM PDT by Landru (Arghh, Liberals are trapped in my colon like spackle or paste.)
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To: wbill
My guess? Her Mailbox is full and is kicking back responses.

But let's not let a valid theory get in the way of wild supposition.

That probably happened at first (and probably fairly quickly), but according to the story, emails are bouncing back with the message "address unknown." If the mailbox had simply been full, the message would have said so. It would be nice to think she had been fired, but it's probably more likely that she was promoted. :^o

27 posted on 04/17/2009 7:32:44 AM PDT by MissNomer (Proud member of FR's "Final 300")
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To: Mobile Vulgus
I received the following yesterday on my facebook account:

April 15 at 12:09pm

I'm a reporter with CNN.com in Atlanta. I'm writing a piece about the tea party protests. This is what I have published so far but I want to add more voices to it. This is what I have published so far but I want to add more voices to it.

Link Here

I'm reaching out to as many people who appear to be in support. Would you mind if I called you?

Thanks.

Ashley Fantz CNN.com writer/producer CNN.com Atlanta
1 CNN Center
General newsroom: 404-588-6888
Direct in the CNN newsroom: 404-878-0610
Mobile: 786-566-2219
Email: Ashley.fantz@turner.com
AOL IM: afantzcnn

28 posted on 04/17/2009 7:50:35 AM PDT by TeknoBeck (I've upped my standards, so up yours...)
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To: MissNomer
Yep, promotions will be in the offing.

If I was the CNN IT guy, faced with someone getting a mailbox bombed:

1) The user still needs email access.

2) The old mailbox is filling up - I've no idea what the size limits are, if any. IF the mailbox gets big enough, it could even take the entire server down... (that's a problem...)

3) There are public references to the old email account, and they can't be changed easily.

SO....I'd change her email address from "newsidiot" to "newsidiot1", make sure that internal pointers recognized her new address, and deactivate the old address. Prob solved, except that the public facing address is still out there, and people who want to mail this newsidiot inspirational messages will have them kicked back.

29 posted on 04/17/2009 8:00:17 AM PDT by wbill
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To: Mobile Vulgus

Is she looking under her bed at night these days? She probably should...


30 posted on 04/17/2009 8:24:04 AM PDT by matginzac
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To: Right Cal Gal

Love your tag line! Lived in Bay Area too long as a kid - escaped with sanity still intact. Often thought when rumor that 9/11 goons wanted to take out Golden Gate Bridge, we should have asked them to aim a little to the left and take out Berkeley, too! Cheers...


31 posted on 04/17/2009 8:27:27 AM PDT by matginzac
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To: Mobile Vulgus

She was a total Obama propagandist during her opinion piece on TV. She made an ass of herself and CNN.


32 posted on 04/17/2009 10:56:22 AM PDT by CodeToad (Anyone wanting the government to take over medical care should stand in line at the post office)
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To: wbill

Hmmmm. Ehhhxcellent. A person might find it entertaining to generate a list of possible new email addresses and try them, then posting results on, say, a forum such as FreeRepublic. I’m just sayin’.


33 posted on 04/17/2009 11:03:00 AM PDT by MissNomer (Proud member of FR's "Final 300")
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To: Mobile Vulgus

If I were CNN I’d fire her for the following reasons:

1. Giving a FoxNews credit for organizing the event that millions of people support. It isn’t true that FoxNews organized the events but there she was on TV telling people it is so, all in a biased anti-Conservative rant about FoxNews.

2. She Propagated the idea that being conservative is a FoxNews thing such that conservatives should not watch CNN.

3. Being rude to the people she was interviewing.That is a total turnoff to viewers of all types.

4. Using her position to give a pro-Obama position that was plainly obvious, giving additional support to the idea that CNN is a pro-Democrat, anti-Republican, anti-Conservative network.


34 posted on 04/17/2009 11:04:31 AM PDT by CodeToad (Anyone wanting the government to take over medical care should stand in line at the post office)
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To: Mobile Vulgus

The word TRUTH and NO MSM can be used in the same sentence. That is one of those oxes and morons.


35 posted on 04/17/2009 11:05:23 AM PDT by RetiredArmy (WE THE PEOPLE, In order to TAKE BACK OUR UNION, Swear to FIGHT the Marxists.)
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To: MissNomer
yeah, except that it could be "NewsIdiot1" or combinations thereof. OR "NewsidiotA" + combinations. Or name variations: "News T. Idiot", and so forth.

Might be worth playing around with, but I wouldn't encourage it. LE generally takes a dim view of people messing around where they shouldn't on computers. Frankly, this damn fool isn't worth the effort.

36 posted on 04/17/2009 12:59:52 PM PDT by wbill
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38 posted on 04/19/2009 2:34:02 PM PDT by timestax (CNNLIES..BIG TIME)
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