Posted on 04/03/2008 6:59:26 AM PDT by kristinn
To mark our tenth annual freep against media bias outside the White House Correspondents Association Dinner, the D.C. Chapter of FreeRepublic.com will hold an awards ceremony to announce the ten worst examples of media reporting over the past ten years.
Nominations are being accepted on this thread from now until 9 a.m. EDT Monday, April 21. Voting will commence shortly after that and will close at 3 p.m. EDT Friday, April 25.
Nominees should be backed with quotes and source links. Acceptable nominees are news media outlets, reporters, commentators, photographers, editors and executives. The time period runs from 1999 through 2008. The winners will not be decided on a year-by-year basis , so there could be more than one winner from a year and none for another year.
The standard for nominations are a media report(s) that was false, doctored, treasonous, egregiously biased or timed or withheld to give maximum political advantage or cause maximum political damage.
The D.C. Chapter will announce the winners at 4:30 p.m. EDT, Saturday, April 26, 2008 at our regular location for the Correspondents Dinner freep: the corner of Connecticut Avenue and T Street, NW, just across from the Hilton where the dinner is held.
The freep will be from 4 p.m. to about 8 p.m. All Freepers and lurkers in good standing are welcome to join us.
Hear! Hear!
Global Warming.
I’m glad Saint Olesker made your list.
Hasn’t this trophy been officially retired and just awarded to Reuters on a permanent basis?
You people are brutal. As it should be.
Hope this is what you were looking for:
Ken Starr: ‘FBI Believed Juanita’
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a384ac0a23aef.htm
NBC held Broaddrick’s story for more than a month as the clock ran out on Clinton’s impeachment trial.
NBC finally ran their Broaddrick exclusive on Feb. 24, 1999
ARCHIVES: NBC to air rape story of Ms. Juanita Broaddrick (Russert physically ill)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1976918/posts
Transcript of Juanita Broaddrick’s Interview on Dateline NBC
MSNBC 24 Feb 1999
http://members.aol.com/st0pclint0n/juanita_broaddrick_intervw.htm
Clinton Accuser’s Story Aired
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/broaddrick022599.htm
It’s Not Just Scott Beauchamp
The American Thinker ^ | 08-16-2007 | By Randall Hoven
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1882114/posts
Winter Soldier Syndrome
By Michelle Malkin
The tale of Army Private Scott Thomas Beauchamp, the discredited “Baghdad Diarist” for the discredited New Republic magazine, is an old tale:
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichelleMalkin/2007/08/08/winter_soldier_syndrome
The New York Times on a Swift Boat to Court?
June 26, 2006 By Noel Sheppard
Times’ Pulitzer Prize—winning team of Eric Lichtblau and James Risen disclosed to America and her enemies the existence of another highly classified national security program designed to identify terrorist activity before it occurs.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2006/06/the_new_york_times_on_a_swift.html
Terrorist-tipping NYTimes wants Ruth Ginsburg’s help
By Michelle Malkin November 25, 2006
Blabbermouths at the New York Times, who have been accused by federal prosecutors of tipping off Islamic charities fronting for terror, want Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to protect them:
http://michellemalkin.com/2006/11/25/terrorist-tipping-nytimeswants-ruth-ginsburgs-help/
NYT Reporter Accuses Bush Administration of Lying About Anti-Terror Program
By Clay Waters | March 27, 2008
You may remember that Lichtblau and Times colleague James Risen, broke the news about the classified National Security Agency’s wiretapping program in December 2005, ignoring pleas from the White House. Six months later those same two reporters, in an even more egregious revelation of classified information, revealed classified details about SWIFT, a U.S.-instigated international bank surveillance program.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/clay-waters/2008/03/27/nyt-reporter-accuses-bush-administration-lying-about-anti-terror-progra
Bill O’Reilly: “FreeRepublic Needs A Full Time Monitor. It Has None.”
Friday, August 03, 2007 7:04:35 AM · by lowbridge · 396 replies · 8,589+ views
Fox News/Bill O’Reilly Show
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1875687/posts
O’Reilly Factor Provides Free Republic Offending Comments Links
Wednesday, August 01, 2007 7:09:49 PM · by kristinn · 707 replies · 23,207+ views
Tuesday, August 1, 2007 | Kristinn
I received an e-mail today from the Fox News producer who booked me for the O’Reilly Factor last night. The links have been forwarded to Jim Robinson for review. Jim asked me to start a thread with the links so that Freepers, and everyone else, could see for themselves what the fuss is about
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1874938/posts?q=1&;page=601
**O’Reilly Fracture Spins “Hate Site” Free Republic (Kristinn Taylor on O’Reilly 7-31-07)**
Wednesday, August 01, 2007 3:16:56 AM · by Syncro · 152 replies · 6,630+ views
The Institute of Phemonology ^ | July 29, 2007 | Dr. Zoo
You Tube video of The O’Reilly Factor with Kristinn Taylor speaking for Free Republic. Bill O’Reilly makes claims about Freerepublic.com to spin us into a right wing hate site.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1874598/posts
I’m not going to call Bill O’Reilly a liar... yet, but...
Tuesday, July 31, 2007 11:35:37 PM · by Jim Robinson · 507 replies · 13,779+ views
I’m not going to call Bill O’Reilly a liar... yet, but... on his TV show today, he read off a laundry list of ridiculous “hate” statements like “I hate blacks,” “Hillary should be assassinated” and “homosexuals are dogs” that he said he personally found on Free Republic and claims that they were posted here today. I do not believe that. I doubt that he personally logged on to FR and I doubt he found any such thing posted here today. Who knows what we may have missed and is buried deep in our archives of millions of posts, but our...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1874548/posts
(Update: Link to Video Added) Freeper on O’Reilly Factor Tonight 8 and 11 p.m. EDT 7/31/07
Tuesday, July 31, 2007 8:09:07 PM · by kristinn · 871 replies · 23,094+ views
Link to the Video on Fox News (works best with Internet Explorer) ^ | Tuesday, July 31, 2007 | Kristinn
I taped a segment on the O’Reilly Factor for airing tonight to defend Free Republic against charges that it is a hate site. The segment will air in the ‘D block’ around 8:35 p.m. EDT and rerun at 11 p.m. and 4 a.m. EDT.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1874463/posts
Bill O’Reilly Slams Freerepublic
Sunday, July 29, 2007 6:49:13 PM · by WyCoKsRepublican · 195 replies · 7,578+ views
I recently tuned in to the Radio Factor to hear Bill O’Reilly saying that he was hated by Freerepublic and that it was an extreme right wing blog. First of all, Mr. O’Reilly is not hated. I have a lot of respect for the man, his honesty, integrity and point of view. What I don’t like, as do many Freepers, is that when he is on target on some key issues, he is way off target on others. He needs to realize that we even disagree amongst ourselves quite often. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1873427/posts
Situation Called Dire in West Iraq
Anbar Is Lost Politically, Marine Analyst Says
By Thomas E. RicksWashington Post Staff Writer
Monday, September 11, 2006;
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/10/AR2006091001204.html
Anbar Rising
By Bill Roggio May 11, 2007 2:38 PM
Sheik Abdul Sattar Al-Rishawi and his allies among the tribes and anti al Qaeda insurgent groups began forming alliances in the spring and summer of 2006. In September, the groups established the Jazeera Council in Ramadi, and began working more closely with Coalition forces to begin securing neighborhoods in Ramadi. The Sahawah Al Anbar, which followed the success of the Jazeera Council, was formed in October. The Awakening provided the disparate groups with a political platform, and began to work closely with the Coalition and establishing ties with the Iraqi government.
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2007/05/anbar_rising.php
False Boos Reported at Bush Rally September 03, 2004
The trouble is, the boos never showed up on the audio tape and multiple witnesses claim there was no booing at all. The story has since been changed twice without a formal retraction. And several AP feed sites still contain the original version.
http://jackofclubs.blogspot.com/2004/09/false-boos-reported-at-bush-rally.html
The Associated Press Makes It Up September 03, 2004
I’ve long said that the Associated Press is the nation’s worst source of media bias. But this one, frankly, blows me away. It was first noted, I think, by Freepers and followed up on by Swimming Through the Spin, linked to by InstaPundit.
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/007712.php
Bush Offers Best Wishes for Clinton (Liberal bias shows again)
AP via Yahoo ^
Posted on Friday, September 03, 2004 2:16:20 PM by MaineRepublic
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1206685/posts
CORRECTING THE RECORD; Times Reporter Who Resigned Leaves Long Trail of Deception
Jayson Blair, 27, misled readers and Times colleagues with dispatches that purported to be from Maryland, Texas and other states, when often he was far away, in New York.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9403E1DB123FF932A25756C0A9659C8B63
CNN and Eason Jordan (2003). Admitted bias, slanting the news. Eason Jordan, CNN’s news chief, admitted that CNN withheld reporting on Saddam Hussein’s atrocities so as to continue getting favored treatment from Saddam.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110003336
Joe Wilson’s Lies, A Timeline - Who Forged the Documents? (Vanity)
October 25, 2005 | wuli
And then:
July 6, 2003 - New York Times publishes Wilson’s now-famous op-ed. That account differs in important ways from the story Wilson has anonymously provided the Times, the Washington Post and the New Republic.
Wilson acknowledges for the first time he had not seen any forged document. “As for the actual memorandum, I never saw it. But news accounts have pointed out that the documents had glaring errors—they were signed, for example, by officials who were no longer in government—and were probably forged.” Wilson acknowledged the same thing in an appearance that morning on Meet the Press, saying, “I had not, of course, seen the documents.”
And still, the reason Joe Wilson was courted to write an op-ed for the New York Times and to appear on Meet the Press was not because his analysis of the Niger intelligence differed from that of the CIA or of Bush administration policymakers but because according to Wilson he was the man with the proof; but we know he had no such “proof”.
Wilson is no “whistleblower”, he is a lier and a man on a political agenda,
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1509007/posts
FR Exclusive: AP SPIKES JOHN O’NEILL - SWIFT BOAT VETS STORY
Posted on Tuesday, May 04, 2004 9:47:21 PM by kristinn
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1129682/posts
The Associated Press has spiked reporting on the press conference this morning in Washington, D.C. by John O’Neill and Swift Boat Veterans for Truth where they accused fellow Vietnam veteran and Swift boat unit member…..
Thank you!
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