Posted on 08/20/2015 1:46:14 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
It isn't completely official yet but when an employee has been removed from a company's list of staff bios, is publicly badmouthing his bosses, and is threatening to sue his employer, it is almost a sure sign that he has in fact been fired. Such is the case with lethargic labor reporter Mike Elk who has apparently (probably) been fired by Politico. New York Magazine lends Elk a sympathetic ear yet he still comes off as a rather nasty piece of work:
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
[The European Federation of Journalists. . .has issued a stern letter to Politico President and CEO Jim VandeHei. The group is upset about “reports” that Politico may be hiring journalists to cover Europe who are based in the “right-to-work” state of Virginia.]
Fu*k ‘em if they can’t take a joke.
Newsbusters wrote THIS ?
Politico......the Beltway Bible is still very much a classic newsroom culture, where reporters and editors practice the old journalistic convention of not expressing opinions about the topics they cover.
Um...Newsbusters QUOTING NY Magazine.
NY Mag describing Soros' Politico as :
Politico......the Beltway Bible is still very much a classic newsroom culture, where reporters and editors practice the old journalistic convention of not expressing opinions about the topics they cover.
So Soros' rag Politico, created the SAME WEEK Obama announced his candidacy for president and used as a tool to trash any Obama opponents until he was elected--used to trash Sarah Palin unrelentingly, including entire articles based on 'quotes' that Palin never said--used to trash Herman Cain with over 100 articles in less than a week to drive him to drop out of the 2012 presidential campaign because if he ran against Obama, Obama would be unable to use his ace in the hole--"If you don't vote for me you are a racist."
Soros' trash rag is now
the Beltway Bible ..... where reporters and editors practice the old journalistic convention of not expressing opinions about the topics they cover.
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