salon.com contacts DFU over FR's role in murder of Nick Berg by Islamofascist Terrorist b*st*rds

email from salon.com reporter | 5-12-04 | dfu

[Mo1]

Ya know ... just when I think I have heard everything

The left comes out and surprises me

Are these people off their meds again?

[TOUGH STOUGH]

This is ridiculous. Yes, Doug, Nick's brutal murder is ALL your fault. (sarcasm)

The left will point the finger at anyone (and usually their fingers are pointing to some innocent person(s) on the right) except for those who are truly responsible.

[Cold Heat]

Lets leave a grieving father out of it. Period

I'll second that emotion.

He has to bury his son.

We can worry about him later.

[Tamzee]

Also to keep in mind...

Salon.com Announces Election-Year Initiative With MoveOn, The Guardian and Air America

MediaChannel.org ^ | March 13, 2004 | Timothy Karr


Posted on 03/13/2004 10:31:56 PM EST by RepatriatedTexan


NEW YORK, March 9, 2004 -- Salon.com announced Tuesday night a series of ambitious election-year initiatives, including the opening of a new Washington D.C. news bureau as well as strategic partnerships with MoveOn.org, The Guardian of London and the new progressive radio network, Air America.

The Website, which bills itself as "the largest independent news organization in the country" will also make the announcement via an email to MoveOn.org's 2-million plus members, MediaChannel has learned from a memo sent on Monday to Salon board members from company editor and founder David Talbot.

"The Web has come of age this campaign season as a political news medium and Salon is well positioned to be a leading player in the election year's round-the-clock news cycle," Talbot states.

Salon claims to have three million readers who visit its Website each month. Of this group, 74,000 are subscribers who pay up to $35 a year for "premium" access to news reports, political columns, cartoons and other editorial features. "We anticipate creating some buzz, and more importantly, new subscription revenue with this publicity offensive," Talbot wrote about this week's announcement in the memo to Salon board members.

In January Salon Media Group secured a $200,000 investment from Wenner Media, publisher of Rolling Stone magazine to collaborate on coverage of the upcoming presidential election. This funding helped set up the Washington Bureau headed by columnist and former Clinton aide Sidney Blumenthal.

Blumenthal will spearhead the Website's newest editorial initiatives. "The Bush administration has put enormous political pressure on the press not to probe its radical policies and their consequences," Blumenthal states in the memo. "Salon intends to be fearless."

Blumenthal is a former Washington Post and New Yorker reporter and senior aide to President Clinton; author of "The Clinton Wars" and five other books.

Salon published on Wednesday an inside account of how intelligence was twisted in the rush to the Iraq war. The author of the article, "The New Pentagon Papers," is a retired lieutenant colonel, Karen Kwiatkowski, a Near East specialist, formerly assigned to the Office of Special Plans in the Pentagon.

According to the memo, Salon will publish on Thursday the first of several advance excerpts from "House of Bush, House of Saud," a new book by Craig Unger "that explores the relationship between the two dynasties," according to the memo.

Unger "will expose shocking new details on the flights approved by the Bush White House that carried members of the bin Laden family and other prominent Saudis out of the U.S. to Saudi Arabia after September 11. Salon will publish for the first time the manifest of the passenger list and identify one passenger as a suspected al Qaeda funder who was aware ahead of time of the September 11 attack."

Salon has also agreed to a trans-Atlantic media partnership with The Guardian of London. "Salon and The Guardian will exchange news stories daily to be posted on each others' Web sites," the memo states. The Guardian has 8.5 million monthly Web readers, including 2 million in the U.S.

Salon will also contribute daily to the new progressive radio network, Air America, providing "The Salon Story of the Day." Air America announced on Wednesday that it will begin broadcasting in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and San Francisco markets on March 31. The radio network's on air personalities include political satirist Al Franken, comedienne Janeane Garofalo, hip hop icon Chuck D, radio personality Randi Rhodes, and humorist Sam Seder.

Salon, founded in 1995, has established a solid reputation as a credible journalistic voice on the Web, though as a business it has never been profitable. In recent years, the company has experimented with multiple revenue models. It now focuses on a "Salon Premium" subscription model supplemented by advertising revenues from companies including Visa, American Express, Mercedes-Benz, HBO, and Microsoft.

For the last several years, the company has had to fend off rumors of its demise. Salon reported quarterly net revenues ending December 31, 2003 of $1.3 million, but reported an equivalent net loss. The company's fourth quarter 2003 financial report to the SEC notes that if the Web publication "does not secure additional funds from the issuance of equity securities or instruments that convert into equity securities, Salon may be unable to continue as a going concern and cease operations."

Salon.com has survived thus far in part by attracting cash infusions from wealthy investors, including famed TV producer Norman Lear. Around the same time Wenner Media took a $200,000 stake earlier this year, founder and co-chairman of Adobe Systems John Warnock tipped another $600,000 into the company, enough to keep the Website going at least through the 2004 elections. Warnock is also a Salon board member.

As a part of the election-year expansion Salon will add writers for its political coverage. Edward Jay Epstein, author of numerous books, from "Inquest: The Warren Commission and the Establishment of Truth" to "Dossier: The Secret History of Armand Hammer," will be writing on the September 11 Commission. James K. Galbraith, the Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair in government-business relations at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, will become Salon's economics correspondent.

-- Timothy Karr is executive director of MediaChannel.org, which last month launched Media For Democracy 2004 (www.mediafordemocracy.us), a citizens-powered initiative to hold mainstream media to a higher standard of election coverage.

© MediaChannel.org, 2004. All rights reserved.


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[ApplegateRanch]

Never implied that they actually "monitor" FR, hence NOT an 'imbecile'.

The "question" posed was "How could...", with the implication that only those with the latest machines can participate here.

My answer was a pin jab at the inferred arrogance that we lesser mortals, with lesser tech, need not apply.

[onyx]

I knew this one would surprise you,
and that's going some!
And, of course, portions of this thread
have been published at TOS.

[JohnGalt]

Seems our boys caught an ANSWER fella and dropped him off in rival territory alla the LAPD circa Darryl Gates.

Strange days, indeed.

[dcwusmc]

Hey now, be nice. 'Lebenty million salon.com readers and writers and the like have to share ONE brain. One tiny, malformed brain between all of them. And today was kerry's turn to use it. Tomorrow it may be Nancy Pelosi or DiFi. Next week Al Frankenberry gets to borrow it.

[John Lenin]

Read my tagline ...

[FreeReign]

...have you any idea why yours is longer than the one they have?

Gee, the "one" they have is downright -- puny!

[Mo1]

I knew this one would surprise you,

Ya know .. when I mentioned on that other thread the conspiracy stories were going start ... I had no idea they would blame Freeper

This is REALLY a stretch

[Luis Gonzalez]

Let me get this right.

Muslim terrorists slaughter a Jew, and it's FR's fault?

I hope this killing Jews thing don't catch on with them.

[chance33_98]

The "supposedly radical Islamic group" is hanging around Free Republic.com, just to see what's happening.

No. According to the dorks at DU he was killed by US black ops/cia, who of course read FR and post on here sometimes....(And I am serious, read some of their threads today, some people have their brains in place but most have went a little wacky).

And you can always trust me, just ask Luke in Texas (I am the leader of the FR conspiracy ya know.)

[onyx]

Oh yeah.
A real s-t-r-e-t-c-h.
They're desperate.

[ladyinred]

I'd also like to point out the terrorists would just have readily killed the father as the son, and I would have just as quickly been outraged and wanted to see the terrorists killed.

Well said, and I concur.

I didn't see the video, and don't wish to, but I did hear the soundtrack today on Hannity. I will hear his screams of agony for a long time to come. This is pure unadulterated evil, and anyone who supports them in any way, shape , or form is participating in that evil. That simple.

[Darnright]

>What in the hell kind of a name is 'Fintan'?

I'd like to know that, myself. Maybe he'll tell us (c;

[Cold Heat]

I recall a banned individual with the name Tamara.

I just cannot place her.

Well, we all know that this crap is crap and will be flushed, as the list was public before we pasted it on the forum and the name of the father was on the list through his actions and not ours. It was he who authorized the use of his name on the ANSWER site.

His son's name was not on the list, and for Iraqi security to arrest his son on the strength of that information is so far fetched and dubious, that tinfoil does not even apply here. it would be beyond wierd and unexplainable.

I cannot balme Salon for chasing this down, but the facts are that the coalition offered this guy safe passage and he refused.

We also know, that the son did not share the fathers beliefs and that he was pro-Bush and against Saddam. unfortunately, that is more than we can say for the father, but as I said earlier, we should let this guy bury his son before we put on a defense to this nonsense.

Frankly, I do not think any defense will be needed for something like the conspiracy that has been dreamed up by this grieving man.

[ApplegateRanch]

So, not being Leftists, we have the brains and ability to cope, without having to resort to the latest in tech, complete with a 'personal trainer' to coach us?

THAT sounds much closer to the truth. No hard feelings?

[Tribune7]

So, does Michael Berg belong to ANSWER? Did he sign a petition? Was the information posted by Doug from Upland accurate?

Blamng us for the death of Nick Berg won't fly.

Nick Berg did something reckless but not wrong. His father is grieving horribly and should be treated with the greatest compassion and sympathy and prayers.

The only blame for Nick's death belongs to the things that killed him.

[Izzy Dunne]

According to the dorks at DU he was killed by US black ops/cia,

So.... the CIA murders this guy's son, because his DAD is anti-war, is that it?

Yeah.

OK.

I'm buying stock in Alcoa, because there's about to be a big demand for tinfoil...