Rising Hegemon (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
Liz Sidoti, along with Ron Fournier, McCain's hand(job)maiden of enabling strikes again. This sort of bullshit is why negative gutter politics is allowed to work. It's how you get a President like George Bush and a press that sleeps on the job for seven and a half years while the whole country goes down the shitter.
Rising Hegemon (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
He had thought of this quality journalism first. Obama too skinny to be elected by us fat-asses.
Gawker (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
This will please Politico. (And our commenters!) Ron Fournier, who got in trouble recently for being too friendly to Karl Rove a couple years ago and also for turning down a job offer a couple years...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
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MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
The AP has just announced that Ron Fournier has been named chief of the AP's Washington bureau. Fournier, who has been serving as acting bureau chief since May, was a former White House correspondent, a national political writer, as well as, an online political editor for the Associated Press. He has won multiple awards over his career for his political reporting and succeeds Sandy Johnson in the...
Talking Points Memo (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
Ron Fournier officially appointed AP Washington bureau chief....
Everyday Ethics (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
Associated Press Ron Fournier has been acting bureau chief since May. He succeeds Sandy Johnson .
The Carpetbagger Report (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
Under the leadership of the Associated Press’ DC bureau chief, Ron Fournier, reporters are now “encouraged to throw away the weasel words and call it like they see it when they think public officials have revealed themselves as phonies or flip-floppers.” The AP now prefers more of an aggressive, plain-spoken style of writing that Fournier [...]
Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
"There are few places in all of journalism more respected or closely watched than the Washington bureau of the Associated Press. And there are few moments in history when the AP's coverage of Washington has mattered more," Oreskes said. "The whole world really is watching Washington and American politics."
Daily Kos (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
After it was revealed that there was an undisclosed relationship between the Associated Press Washington Bureau Chief Ron Fournier, Karl Rove and John McCain’s campaign, and the documented bias shown by the AP since Fournier took over, you would think they would at least make an effort to put out an unbiased story. You would be wrong . Yesterday Associated Press writer Charles Babington wrote what...
The Crossed Pond (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
Let it be known that I have a long-standing grudge against AP’s Washington Bureau Chief Ron Fournier. To be perfectly honest, I can’t even recall the specific incident that set me off, but I do know that it had to do with what I perceived as bizarrely biased “neutral” reporting in the 2004 election [...]
Daily Kos (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
On Tuesday Michael Calderone at Politico produced definitive evidence of Ron Fournier's bias in favor of John McCain. He did it by linking the Associated Press Washington Bureau chief directly to the McCain presidential campaign. Over a period of several months during 2006, Fournier discussed taking a high-level communications job with the McCain campaign. Apparently Fournier turned down the job offer...
The Daily Dish (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
by Chris Bodenner Reacting to news that AP Washington bureau chief Ron Fournier considered taking 'a senior advisory role' with the McCain campaign in 2006, TAP's Adam Serwer wrote: The point is -- none of this should have mattered. Having...
Peter Levine (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
Michael Calderone of Politico reports that the McCain campaign tried to hire an AP reporter and editor, Ron Fournier, as a senior adviser. Fournier has been criticized by liberals for being allegedly too personally friendly with McCain and also Karl...
Everyday Ethics (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
Gawker Alex Pareene says Politico's stories about Ron Fournier "are pointless except as part of some weird campaign to embarrass" the AP newsman. "We ask you: why is a job offer from two years ago news?"
