Posted on 09/22/2010 8:23:10 PM PDT by kristinn
AOL is still around? Huh. They sucked so bad I celebrated the day I left them and never looked back. AOL=Almost On Line..
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/howard-kurtz/2010/09/reporter_fed_up_with_yahoo.html
Reporter fed up with Yahoo
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“In one instance, Cook was forced to bowdlerize a quotation from New York Times reporter James Risen; he was told that referring to masturbation, even euphemistically, was unacceptable. On similar grounds, he was prohibited from writing about the conservative website Free Republic hosting child pornography. Most glaringly, he was told that a proposed story on the Obama Administration raising the salary of White House staffers by 9% lacked the necessary balance; it was killed.”
Cook told him: “I really valued being able to write what I think without somebody worrying about whether it will upset somebody, or meets the sort of balancing test that newspapers apply to themselves.”
Andrew Golis, who runs The Upshot, wrote on his blog Wednesday. “John’s a brilliant reporter, but he decided that he prefers the license Gawker gave him to add his opinions into his reporting to the scale and credibility Yahoo! News could offer.”
Cook is heading back to Gawker. The question for Yahoo, AOL and other portals edging their way into the content business is whether other journalists will see them as a liberating leap from the MSM—or large corporations with overzealous editing.
By Howard Kurtz | September 22, 2010; 10:12 PM ET
What's wrong with the current FR server? (live cam below)
It would be nice if they had to pay for the next few FReepathons. :)
They still exist? I thought they went out of business years ago.
Wonder why they include those neat little mini Frisbees in every magazine anymore?
Joking aside, I hope Jim wins enough to make himself comfortable and make Free Republic permanent.
Hilarious. I felt old just seeing that and knowing how to operate it.
Sue the Bastards!
Whatever their intent, it degrades and slanders Free Republic. This is a despicable and malicious action.
“Are they referring to back a few years ago when a few libs joined and kept posting porn pics in threads for about a week.”
Having been a very active FReeper for 12 years, I do not recall such an event.
Traveling for the last ten years, however, I may have missed a few months at a time.
But that is definitely not a classic 1701 Monitor ....... /laughs
Their intent is very clear. Its sad that anyone could stoop so low.
So it appears to me that the two main players Cook, and Bercovici with some sort of relationship as “friends”, whatever have another friend that pulled something on FR under the guise of “freehoodia”, and they apparently colluded to get even with FR after THAT friend of theirs was banned from the site.
Quite a childish act, but then Liberals are.
Terrific...
That bites. These people can try and post anything and then report against free republic.
Get them for this!
This should be pursued legally to the extent that JimRob need never hold another Freepathon again.
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