Occasions when FR has Scooped Old Media (vanity thread listing)

Free Republic Archive | 9/14/04 | Hispanarepublicana

[hispanarepublicana]

I thought it would be nice to keep track of threads where FR has scooped Old Media. Please feel free to add or correct:

[AP SCOOP] Space Shuttle Columbia Will Be Visible In San Francisco Area (6AM Pacific)
nasa

Posted on 02/01/2003 7:38:08 AM CST by leadpenny

 

President Bush is eating in my undisclosed location (UPDATE: Undisclosed location is IRAQ!)
Eyes on ^ | 271830(C)NOV03 | ChiefKujo

Posted on 11/27/2003 9:37:26 AM CST by ChiefKujo

 

Email: Saddam may have been captured [Has now been confirmed by DNA testing]
Unconfirmed source -

Posted on 12/14/2003 4:01:05 AM CST by Gigantor

 

Al Gore's Son Arrested for Possession of Marijuana
Montgomery County, Md. Police Department ^ | Saturday, December 20, 2003 | Kristinn

Posted on 12/20/2003 6:55:47 PM CST by kristinn

 

Are the Snipers Part of the "Five Percent Nation"? ("The Black Man is God" Among Teachings)
Compiled from Various Websites by Hispanarepublicana ^ | Various

Posted on 10/26/2002 4:18:40 PM CDT by hispanarepublicana

 

FR scoops the wires (japan earthquake)
Vanity | 25 Sept 03 | Vanity

Posted on 09/25/2003 6:40:37 PM CDT by Lokibob

 

Live Thread: Ben Barnes and CBS Attempt Another Bush Smear (60 Minutes)
www.freerepublic.com | September 8, 2004

Posted on 09/08/2004 6:39:18 PM CDT by Howlin

 

 

[coloradan]

The important post is #21, "little commo problem right now" - leadpenny. right here.

[LTCJ]

Intelligence Summary?

Yep. One of these days I'm going to go through these summaries of the emergence of the New Press^TM and organize them for a reference.

[Petronski]

I'm really disappointed. I missed one. ;O)

[stayout]

I'm happy to report the following story I put together was picked up in real time by Rush on October 8, 2003: Schwarzenegger's Vote Total Beats Davis' 2002 Total; Democrats' Balloon Fizzles Out .

[NaughtiusMaximus]

Watch out Lurkers of the Liberal Media. Learn the dire lesson of your old tired chieftan Dan Rather. Even in our pyjamas, Freepers will root out your agendas and expose your lies.

[xm177e2]

Airplanes fly into WTC, #1 and #2.

By the time the second plane hit, the media was already covering it (so many cable viewers watched the 2nd strike live). FR did not scoop the media in that case, it was about even.

[hispanarepublicana]

I was just thinking last night what an interesting book it would be to organize the more interesting posts into chapters.

[proudpapa]

I will never forget the spaceshuttle scoop. I was up early trolling and witnessed the entire episode. I beleive FR was at least 7 minutes ahead of major lamestream media on this one.

[ntnychik]

FR's greatest hits

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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NEVER FORGET

This Freerepublic.com Thread was credited, in a 2000 Front Page Los Angeles Times article by ELIZABETH SHOGREN, with forcing the Heads of the DNC to make Congresswoman LORETTA SANCHEZ cancel her PLAYBOY MANSION 'Welcome to Los Angeles Democrat Convention Delegates' Party. T'was Media History in the making:

'Playboy site for Hispanic reception (Mine: Coffee, Tea or Me")

http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3921ce6c7673.htm

This Thread's no longer accessible Photos showed LORETTA SANCHEZ's smiling face sitting atop a Playboy Bunny's Body.


NEVER FORGET

[hispanarepublicana]

Ah, yes.........

[AmericanInTokyo]

Recall the story earlier this year, on the three Japanese "hostages" in Iraq, whose extreme leftist and anti-American backgrounds based on their internet writings (only in Japanese) were put up and analyzed on FreeRepublic less than 24 hours if I recall, after they were kidnapped...and the theory that they were sympathetic to their Islamofascist "captors" all in an effort to force Japan to withdraw from Iraq.....yet the MSM continued to ignore this fact (or even possibility) for days and days on end.. completely ignoring the modus operandi of those "kidnapped" leftists......many of us on FR were fully into that investigative mode, had the story straight, without illusions, and were well out ahead of the liberal, controlled CBS/ABC/NBC media on that one.

Bottom line: we were right.

[hispanarepublicana]

Have an un-sweetened, un-adulterated, and ever-so-convenient 100% bottled green tea for me soon!
You just can't get it here (not any that tastes like the real thing, anyway).
It's the only thing I really liked while I was there.

[AmericanInTokyo]

If you can concentrate, and look past the sauted fish heads, the free suit pressings on the packed morning subway and the noisy "chirigami kokan" trucks that make the rounds, you can actually learn to LIKE Japan! :-)

Thanks for this thread.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Is Atlanta Shaking?

4.9 East Alabama earthquake at 5:30 am shook AL, GA, TN, MS, NC, SC but no word nationally for over an hour.

(CNN first addressed the question about an hour later. No details for another hour after that.)

FreeRepublic had been looking at seismographs, epicenters, probable damage before 6:00 AM.

[hispanarepublicana]

Oh, yeah....I also liked the clean, non-smelly subway cars and the PRISTINE taxi cabs.

[ladyinred]

Nick Berg's father being a Commie.

John Kerry being a commie? Oh, never mind, the old media wouldn't report that!

[Robert A Cook PE]

15 days of Iraq war lives camera feeds.

Then again, we were commenting on the network news that time, but it is nice to remember.

[KSCITYBOY]

bump

[abner]

Here is one for you... From 2000- 'Basic' education funding...(I don't know if this is the mole, but it bears research)

This was the lady that stole the debate tape and sent it to Gore. I got the research to a friend, and he got it to Drudge. Drudge had it on his site immediately. I also got a confirmation from my friend who shall remain nameless, that it would be put on Drudge.