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Nominations Needed for Free Republic's Faux News Awards
Tuesday, April 26, 2005 | Kristinn

Posted on 04/26/2005 9:16:06 AM PDT by kristinn

Nominations are needed for Free Republic's Faux News Awards, which are to be presented this Saturday outside the White House Correspondents Association dinner by the D.C. Chapter.

10 winners will be announced. First Place will be awarded the Buckhead, the rest will get framed Sixty Minutes Faux Bush National Guard documents.

The criteria for nominees is as follows: A news reporter, editor, commentator, producer, executive or organization who has lied, fabricated, tried to dupe the public or stretched the truth so far that the truth is unrecognizable and called it news.

Please provide documentation for your nomination if possible. Links and/or excerpts are the best documentation for these awards.

Nominations will be accepted until Wednesday evening at 8 p.m. EDT. Voting will commence as soon as the nominations are sorted out.

Link to details of Saturday's White House Correspondents dinner freep.


TOPICS: Activism/Chapters; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: awards; dcchapter; fauxnews; frauds; liars; propagandawingofdnc; propagandists; schadenfreude; tools
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To: kristinn
Anytime the legacy media does a story on the results of a survey, it's by definition "Faux News".

Take the Shaivo (sp?) case. Before she died the media was crowing that "the people don't want the republicans to interfere". Then after she died, some genuine surveys came out and said the opposite.

Today, we're told that 60% of the people don't want the rules changed in the senate (like very many people even understand what the issue is).

Surveys are "Faux News".

21 posted on 04/26/2005 9:52:23 AM PDT by narby
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To: kristinn
"Faux News" isn't that what FNC is called on DU?
22 posted on 04/26/2005 10:06:29 AM PDT by Mike Darancette (Mesocons for Rice '08)
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To: Brian Mosely; Republican Red
Thanks. That's just the kind of nomination we're looking for. The AP could probably win all ten spots just by themselves for their reporting/non-reporting last year.

I'll offer up my own scoop on the AP spiking a story on the Swift boat vets' initial press conference on May 4, 2004 because it didn't "further the anti-Kerry Vietnam veteran story any."

23 posted on 04/26/2005 10:09:30 AM PDT by kristinn
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To: William Creel

The Carpal Tunnel Awards will be announced as soon as my fingers straighten out. Self-nominations accepted.


24 posted on 04/26/2005 10:10:51 AM PDT by kristinn
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To: Mike Darancette

Yes.


25 posted on 04/26/2005 10:13:04 AM PDT by kristinn
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To: WinOne4TheGipper
Many obits about newsworthy figures are written in advance. Sometimes someone screws up and releases it early.

Other incidents of writing the news in advance are out there--some quite recent. I think those would be better suited to the Faux News awards.

26 posted on 04/26/2005 10:17:38 AM PDT by kristinn
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To: kristinn

I know that many obits are written in advance. CNN screwed up big time a couple of years ago by releasing quite a few obits of several prominent and still living (at that point) people. I was drawing attention to the added detail that Michael was at Terri's bed (as if anyone would know beforehand).


27 posted on 04/26/2005 10:26:36 AM PDT by WinOne4TheGipper (Democratic Underground- where dim wits go to be impressed by the intellect of half wits.)
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To: kristinn

Who was the paper that did the clubbing baby seals stories in the first person the day the hunt was postponed? Was that the Boston Globe?


28 posted on 04/26/2005 10:47:01 AM PDT by T. P. Pole
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To: lilylangtree
Andrew Heyward, head of CBS News, still has his job after the Rathergate fiasco. Usually, the head of a department so screwed up like CBS News gets the ax. Not Heyward.

Eason Jordan is another good nominee. I take it his remarks at Davos are what you're nominating him for?

29 posted on 04/26/2005 10:49:47 AM PDT by kristinn
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To: kristinn
Writer Fabricated Boston Globe Story on Seal Hunt

A Boston Globe freelance writer fabricated large chunks of a story published this week, the newspaper said on Friday in the latest incident to embarrass the U.S. media.

The Globe, which is owned by The New York Times Co., said it stopped using writer Barbara Stewart because of a story that ran on Wednesday about a seasonal hunt for baby seals off Newfoundland -- a hunt, it turns out, had not taken place.

The story datelined Halifax, Nova Scotia described in graphic detail how the seal hunt began on Tuesday, with water turning red as hunters on some 300 boats shot harp seal cubs "by the hundreds."

The problem, however, was that the hunt did not begin on Tuesday; it was delayed by bad weather and was scheduled to start on Friday, weather permitting, the Globe said in an editor's note.

30 posted on 04/26/2005 10:51:31 AM PDT by T. P. Pole
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To: T. P. Pole; gorush
Barbara Stewart is the Boston Globe freelance reporter who fabricated the seal hunt story a few weeks ago.

Boston Globe Retracts Story by Freelancer it Says was Fabricated

The Boston Globe told readers in an editor's note published Friday that portions of a story it ran on a seal hunt off Newfoundland and Labrador were fabricated by a freelance reporter who was not at the scene.

The Globe said the reporter, Barbara Stewart, did not attend the event, which had actually been postponed because of bad weather, and that Globe editors should have demanded attribution for details she provided about the hunt.

SNIP

The article, published in Wednesday's editions of the Globe, said that the largest seal hunt in a half a century had resumed, involving hunters on about 300 boats "shooting at harp seal cubs by the hundreds, as the ice and water turned red."

31 posted on 04/26/2005 11:00:18 AM PDT by kristinn
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To: kristinn

In the Eason Jordan category: the Italian Commie reporter who said US troops intentionally targeted her as she was being driven to the Baghdad Airport after being released by terrorists.

In the general award category: Katie Couric. Just because. ;^)


32 posted on 04/26/2005 11:07:53 AM PDT by ABG(anybody but Gore) (From Roe v Wade to Terri Schiavo, the RATS have become a death cult...)
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To: kristinn

Another one that I can't remember the name though is the reporter from the NYT that resigned about two years ago because all his stories WERE fabricated. Do you know the fellow I'm talking about?


33 posted on 04/26/2005 11:26:18 AM PDT by lilylangtree (Veni, Vidi, Vici)
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To: lilylangtree

Jayson Blair.


34 posted on 04/26/2005 1:00:55 PM PDT by L.N. Smithee (Honestly - would anybody be surprised if it was revealed George Felos is a necrophiliac?)
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To: kristinn

It seems to me there was another recent incident of fabricated news at the Globe, and that doesn't count the plagerism in years past by the likes of Mike Barnicle.


35 posted on 04/26/2005 1:01:58 PM PDT by gorush (Exterminate the Moops!)
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To: kristinn
ABU GRAIB!!
36 posted on 04/26/2005 1:09:08 PM PDT by Humidston (Rats = Party of DEATH)
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To: Humidston

Ditto!!!!!!!!!!!


37 posted on 04/26/2005 1:17:55 PM PDT by CT CONSERVATIVE (Fight Crime: Shoot Back)
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To: kristinn
The AP is always a good candidate:

June 03, 2004 12:20 PM EST NEW YORK Associated Press editors were forced to retract an earlier report that a meteorite might have hit near Olympia, Wash., this morning after discovering that a source, one Bradley Hammermaster, claiming to be an astronomy professor, had perpetrated a hoax.

"An early report that a meteor might have hit turned out to be false," said AP spokesman Jack Stokes. "It looks like a version (of the story) was killed because it talked about a meteorite hitting." He said AP was reviewing how the error occurred.

38 posted on 04/26/2005 2:09:43 PM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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To: kristinn

And, by the way, when is anyone ever gonna call CNN and so many others for falling for and hyping the Raelian clone hoax?


39 posted on 04/26/2005 2:10:42 PM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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To: kristinn
David Brock / Media Matter for GannonGate:

Eason Jordan / Comment in Davos at the WEF (Military targeting journalists):

Mary Mapes / 60 Minutes TANG Producer:

Ben Barnes / Useful Rather idiot (toss in that hateful secretary they dug from the basement too):

CNN / Tool of the Globalist Anti-American Left *:


*CNN WHITEWASHING GUILIANA SGRENA

JYB Transfinitum ^ | March 7, 2005 | B. Preston

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1358354/posts

"but since CNN has removed the most relevant parts of it--the ones that actually speak to Sgrena's motives--I"

Posted on 03/08/2005 5:50:38 AM PST by conservativecorner

Over the weekend, I caught CNN removing a damning quote from a story about Italian Communist journalist Guiliana Sgrena, recently released from some form of captivity in Iraq for a reported $6 million ransom, about why she was in Iraq in the first place. She was there, in her own words, to agitate against America and the war--

Sgrena said she "risked everything" to challenge "the Italian government, who didn't want journalists to reach Iraq, and the Americans," who she said don't want the public to see "what really became of that country with the war, and notwithstanding that which they call elections." I ran that quote in my post Sunday. It turns out CNN had also chopped out the next section. Fortunately I still have it. It indicates Sgrena was getting along amicably with her captors: She said she told her captors they could not ask the Italian government to withdraw troops from Iraq -- "their political go-between could not be the government but the Italian people, who were and are against the war." What--she was planning strategy with these goons? Then why was she on video tape begging for her release as though her life was in jeopardy? Perhaps because it gave her the chance to appear before the world and denounce the Americans, an activity that had taken up most of her time even when she was not held "captive" by anyone. In the interests of truth, here is the original version of CNN's story as I received in email over the weekend. Ordinarily, I wouldn't reprint an entire article, but since CNN has removed the most relevant parts of it--the ones that actually speak to Sgrena's motives--I think it's a fair use.

40 posted on 04/26/2005 2:37:18 PM PDT by JesseJane (Senate Republicans = Fainting Goats.... BOO! ~Close your wallet~)
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