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The Web Gets a Scoop (Wall St. Journal Lauds Free Republic on Columbia Coverage)
Wall St. Journal/Opinion Journal ^
| Sunday, February 2, 2003 1:29 p.m. EST
| BY JAMES TARANTO
Posted on 02/02/2003 12:19:00 PM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
Edited on 04/23/2004 12:05:11 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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Space Shuttle Columbia is in a decent for the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and will pass over the San Francisco Area around 6:00 AM Pacific Time. Route will take the Shuttle over Las Vegas, Flagstaff, etc. NASA has still not decided which runway will be used. Landing will be at 9:16 AM Eastern.
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TOPICS: Announcements; Free Republic; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: columbia; columbiareentry; freerepublic; frrules; frrulesapdrools; frscoopedtheworld; leadpennysthread; thanksjimrobinson; thread833885
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To: Howlin; Dog; Jim Robinson
The power of the live thread finally shows its face : )
Live threads are indeed one of the big thrills of FR.
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posted on
02/02/2003 12:26:40 PM PST
by
alisasny
To: Teacher317; jimrob
LOL, someone SCOOPED you, I guess...Yeah, I did a search and couldn't find it at FR. Looks like the "scooper" completely changed the title of the original story, which is an FR no no as I understand (in order to avoid duplicative posts).
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Fascinating to read the thread "as it happened".
We're helping to shape history yet again. WTG, FReepers.
This mention in WSJ just may get FR into the top 1000 websites, too. We were #1251 just last week. (Freerepublic.com is Gaining on Their Competition)
To: VaBthang4
FR also scooped the world press on the 7.9 Alaska earthquake. It's quite a thing JR created.
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Challenger Coverage??
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Not bad for a bunch of "scary" "hardcore whackjobs" on the "radical" "lunatic fringe."
What a difference a newspaper makes.
-PJ
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Thank you for posting this. No surprise, really. Freepers are an anomalously well-informed and intelligent minority in this fair republic. I have long thought that there are many who lurk and mine data here for nuggets of truth and insight. Scooping the AP is nice, but not the most important thing.
The political insight and exposure of the lies of the Left are the critical factors. Would that we could get the powers-that-be to pay closer attention to truths found in this forum, exempli gratia: Mia T's brilliant depictions of the crushing corruption of the Clintons; backhoe's links to the supporting data; alamo girl's lists, the generally clear understanding of the threat from the Islamonazis, etc., etc....
As for the shuttle, it is a blessing to see both the compassion shown here for the families affected and the willingness to face the truth.
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posted on
02/02/2003 12:32:22 PM PST
by
esopman
(Blessings on Freepers Everywhere)
To: Merovingian
Challenger Coverage??We're fast, but not good with names? ;^)
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posted on
02/02/2003 12:32:36 PM PST
by
Teacher317
(faces we're great at, though!)
To: leadpenny
Ping...
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Leadpenny's post at 9:05am is now poignant: "little commo problem right now."
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posted on
02/02/2003 12:33:13 PM PST
by
mikegi
To: Teacher317; RobFromGa; glock rocks
Thanks to all
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posted on
02/02/2003 12:34:16 PM PST
by
xzins
(sometimes it's too difficult to talk about)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Since we're reviewing this historic event through FReepers' eyes, let's post a link to one of the better memorials I've seen... the
THREAD OF SILENCE
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posted on
02/02/2003 12:34:25 PM PST
by
Teacher317
(faces we're great at, though!)
To: RightWhale
FR also scooped the world press on the 7.9 Alaska earthquake. It's quite a thing JR created. We also scooped the world on the Anthrax cases in Florida when the 'experts' were calling it one isolated case.
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posted on
02/02/2003 12:34:33 PM PST
by
Centurion2000
(The question is not whether you're paranoid, but whether you're paranoid enough.)
To: leadpenny
Thought you might want to read this...
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posted on
02/02/2003 12:36:08 PM PST
by
Gamecock
(The friendship of the French is like their wine, exquisite, but of short duration.)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
The thread is very moving...Real time cant be beat
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posted on
02/02/2003 12:36:23 PM PST
by
woofie
(I dont believe in this tag line crap)
To: Teacher317
Thanks. I'm html challenged.
To: Merovingian; Teacher317
Sorry. It's hard not to think of that horrible day in 1986.
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Just too bad this scoop had to be about such a sad event.
BTW we also got an eyewitness report on the arrest of the snipers one early AM.
Someone saw the helicopters closing in before it was reported on any news outlets.
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posted on
02/02/2003 12:40:24 PM PST
by
Allan
To: Behind Liberal Lines
I about fell out of my chair when I logged on Saturday and saw that the thread about 'Commo problems with the Columbia during reentry(I forget the exact wording)' had hundreds of responses already attached to it. Even before the thread loaded I knew just by the amount of responses what had happened. Reviewing the play by play, catching up to speed, and then following it live just doesn't happen anywhere else.
To: Admin Moderator
Please change name in thread title to "Columbia," not "Challenger." Thanks in advance
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posted on
02/02/2003 12:45:16 PM PST
by
Pyro7480
(+ Vive Jesus! (Live Jesus!) +)
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