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AOL Owned Daily Finance Retracts Passage That Libeled Free Republic Over Child Pornography
Thursday, September 23, 2010
| Kristinn
Posted on 09/23/2010 9:36:38 AM PDT by kristinn
The AOL-owned site Daily Finance this morning retracted a passage in an article that falsely stated Free Republic hosted child pornography.
The article was about reporter John Cook leaving Yahoo News to return to Gawker. Included in Cook's reasons for leaving, according to Daily Finance reporter Jeff Bercovici, was that Yahoo would not allow him to write about Free Republic "hosting child pornography." The Salon.com article that was linked to support that claim actually stated that Free Republic did not host child pornography.
The offending Daily Finance passage now reads:
"... On similar grounds, he was prohibited from writing about the conservative website Free Republic being used to promote child pornography*..."
A correction added to the end of the article states:
CORRECTION: Originally, this story said Free Republic was hosting child pornography. According to the Salon article that I linked to, Free Republic was not hosting it but being used to direct readers to an outside site that hosted it."
Link to article exposing AOL's libel of FR posted last night.
Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post, who picked up the Daily Finance story last night, posted a clarification this morning. A request for a correction has been made to Nicholas Carlson at the Business Insider who also repeated the false statement by the AOL's Daily Finance.
TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Free Republic; News/Current Events
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To: kristinn
Not much of a correction, never mind retraction. IMO.
The way they write it, FreeRepublic is a conduit/aggregator of porn. What a joke!
41
posted on
09/23/2010 10:04:38 AM PDT
by
nhwingut
(Palin/Bachmann '12)
To: Demian
You’re correct. Here are the comments thus far:
mantratx on Sep 22, 7:57 PM said:
This guy is pretty slimy. He admitted in his Daily KOS journal he added kiddie porn links to profile pages on the website “Free Republic” to play a game and test how long they would last. He then wrote an article accusing the site of hosting those links.. Real slimy fella.
mantratx on Sep 22, 8:07 PM said:
@mantratx:
At that, not only did he admit creating the account, in an article on Salon.com he documented with screen shots how he created accounts like “sexxlolitatweengirls” and added the links, again, all as a ‘test’. Slime ball to the max.
DebraMaxOne on Sep 22, 10:12 PM said:
@mantratx:
It was Salon.com not the Daily Kos, but other than that, I remember this.
Candace on Sep 22, 11:01 PM said:
@DebraMaxOne:
That article was written by Alex Parene. He noted that some one touting their porn site had been using the site for many years, that’s when he decided to register to see if the administrator would notice if some one tried to register with what looked like a blatant kiddie porn site. apparently the administrator did not notice.
The article was noting the irony of a site that intends to monitor morality, not monitoring the commenters on it’s own site.
http://www.businessinsider.com/john-cook-left-yahoo-because-they-wouldnt-let-him-write-about-masturbation-big-white-house-salaries-and-the-free-republics-child-porn-problem-2010-9
42
posted on
09/23/2010 10:04:45 AM PDT
by
Nickname
To: kristinn
By osmosis I'm suffering extreme emotional distress over this attack on FR.....maybe a little painful neck whiplash, also.
How about a class action suit filed by all of us against these arrogant AOL libtard moguls?
Class will always win out!
Leni
43
posted on
09/23/2010 10:07:12 AM PDT
by
MinuteGal
(Are any Americans better off than they were 4 trillion dollars ago?)
To: Demian; John Robinson; Jim Robinson
This guy [John Cook] is pretty slimy. He admitted in his Daily KOS journal he added kiddie porn links to profile pages on the website Free Republic to play a game and test how long they would last. He then wrote an article accusing the site of hosting those links.. Real slimy fella.Oh??????
Jim Thompson should know this...
44
posted on
09/23/2010 10:07:44 AM PDT
by
null and void
(We are now in day 611 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
To: null and void
” they can tar and feather on the front page, and retract on page B-22, below the fold, inside edge, left hand side six months later.”
On the same page as the zoning notices? ;-)
45
posted on
09/23/2010 10:07:47 AM PDT
by
Kartographer
(".. we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.")
To: Kartographer; rockinqsranch
What if any one of you decide or is running for public office and you opponent printed a story that you are a member of an on line group with reported ties to child porn, what would be a serious and potentially candidate killing situation! Absolutely! I hope Jim sues them for everything they've got.
46
posted on
09/23/2010 10:09:06 AM PDT
by
proud American in Canada
(my former tagline "We can, and we will prevail" doesn't fit with the usurper's goals.)
To: kristinn
If Jim’s legal team pursues this, FR may not have to host any fund drives for a good long while...............
47
posted on
09/23/2010 10:10:26 AM PDT
by
OB1kNOb
(When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; When a wicked man rules, the people groan.)
To: kristinn
Kristinn,
Over the years, especially in the early years, Jim was great at getiing rid of the trolls and scammers.
This is not a retraction. Maybe it’s time to hire a bunch of Sharks to feed on these libelers?
M
48
posted on
09/23/2010 10:10:28 AM PDT
by
Marty62
(marty60)
To: MinuteGal
Elizabeth honey, I'm sitt'n on a gold mine!"
49
posted on
09/23/2010 10:10:41 AM PDT
by
Kartographer
(".. we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.")
To: kristinn
That was NOT a retraction.
That was simply a different lie.
50
posted on
09/23/2010 10:10:48 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(The battle lines are drawn: On one side, are Dems and Repubs. On the other, the Tea Party (us).)
To: kristinn
Anybody can post a link to anything.
FR therefore promotes EVERYTHING!
51
posted on
09/23/2010 10:11:12 AM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("The only stable state is one in which all men are equal before the law." -- Aristotle)
To: Kartographer
Heck no! People actually read the zoning notices!
52
posted on
09/23/2010 10:11:40 AM PDT
by
null and void
(We are now in day 611 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
To: MinuteGal
How about a class action suit filed by all of us against these arrogant AOL libtard moguls?Excellent idea.
53
posted on
09/23/2010 10:12:00 AM PDT
by
proud American in Canada
(my former tagline "We can, and we will prevail" doesn't fit with the usurper's goals.)
To: Viking2002
If I was I’d want my own cut of the action in my hands. LOL
54
posted on
09/23/2010 10:12:10 AM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
To: kristinn
Don the battle gear and take ‘em down. Show no mercy. Make ‘em cry and beg.
55
posted on
09/23/2010 10:14:07 AM PDT
by
JPG
(Care for another lobster, Mookie? How's your steak? Ready for another triple Stoli/rocks?)
To: Demian
This guy [John Cook] is pretty slimy. He admitted in his Daily KOS journal he added kiddie porn links to profile pages on the website Free Republic to play a game and test how long they would last. He then wrote an article accusing the site of hosting those links.. Real slimy fella. So this guy is visiting child porn sites, and linking to them? Sounds like a confession that the FBI might like to see. Sue his miserable butt and get him 20 in the slammer to boot.
56
posted on
09/23/2010 10:15:55 AM PDT
by
Tijeras_Slim
(Live jubtabulously!)
To: Responsibility2nd
Actually it was Emily Litella not Rosanne Rosannadanna that said that.
57
posted on
09/23/2010 10:15:55 AM PDT
by
FReepaholic
(Yoiks...and away!!)
To: kristinn
Don’t Yahoo and Google direct web travellers to links containing porn?
Where is the hit piece on these websites?
58
posted on
09/23/2010 10:16:49 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Ask yourself,where does Saudi Arabia fit on a scale of "passive" to "moderate" to "extremist" Islam?)
To: kristinn
Truth doesn’t matter to the left.
To: American Constitutionalist
One BILLION dollars!
60
posted on
09/23/2010 10:21:36 AM PDT
by
Be Free
(Liberalism is a disease.)
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