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Below is my column in the New York Post on the Associated Press guideline for reporters to avoid calling Hamas a terrorist organization. Voice of America and other media outlets have made the same decision. This is not about supporting the Palestinian cause. It is about correctly describing a group that commits terrorist attacks as a terrorist organization. Here is the column: Confucius once said that “the beginning of wisdom is the ability to call things by their right names.” That does not appear to be the approach of the Associated Press this week after the media organization told its...

More ugly details are trickling out from behind the scenes at CBS's Rathergate fiasco, with one of the network's top on-air personalities reportedly telling a senior executive that Dan Rather should have been fired. CBS "Early Show" host Harry Smith is said to have "pointedly confronted" news division chief Andrew Heyward during a staff meeting after three producers were asked to take the fall for Rather's blunder last month. According to the Web site NewsBlues.com, Smith wanted to know why and how Dan Rather was still able to keep his position on "60 Minutes Wednesday." Ratherbiased.com, which picked up the...

RatherBiased.com reports that a huge debate is raging within CBS: Should the entire Memogate report be released or just an editted 'public' version? WOW!!! How outrageous is it that they even consider turning loose anything less than the full and complete report? What does this indicate? The Memogate report is thorough and truthful.A certain highly-insulated group at CBS still thinks they are above accountability. What to watch for: CBS will claim they had no choice but to edit out certain portions of the report because of 'personnel policies' protecting the 'privacy of employees'.Release of an editted Memogate report will result...