The Daily Transom (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Conde Nast goes into crisis mode. Three new designs for the Kosciuszko Bridge. Inside trader "Octopussy" elects for the track suit when turning himself in. Jamie Dimon's dad joins him at JPMorgan Chase. Who killed Lehman? Blame Gladwell. Helen Thomas pens a poem about the changes in journalism, sort of. Former Citigroup head says he's sorry. Nancy Pelosi is glad Anthony Weiner isn't pushing...
1,369 lightbulbs (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Famed White House correspondent Helen Thomas waxes poetic on the state of modern journalism to Greg Mitchell : The changes are immense, no noise of clicking teletypes and typewriters, obsolete technology, little real editing unfortunately, instantaneous communication and more superficiality, competition based on personality instead of content in depth, insecurity about where newspapers...
Crooks and Liars (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
... than others. As journalists assigned to cover the White House, Craig Crawford of CQ Politics and Helen Thomas of the Hearst News Syndicate, together share decades of observing from the White House Press Room. They have watched and noted each success and each blunder. Helen Thomas has covered more presidents than any other present journalist, starting with JFK in 1960,...
Media Matters for America (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
... Antichrist (and even defends such smears) -- not to mention restored an attack by Ann Coulter on Helen Thomas that Coulter's syndicators edited out -- Joseph Farah and Co. likely see nothing particularly egregious with Boone's eliminationist rhetoric. Perhaps Farah might want to explain why he allows Boone's column to remain on his website when his fellow right-wingers have determined...
ConWebBlog: The Weblog of ConWebWat (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
... Antichrist (and even defends such smears) -- not to mention restored an attack by Ann Coulter on Helen Thomas that Coulter's syndicators edited out -- Joseph Farah and Co. likely see nothing wrong with Boone's eliminationist rhetoric. Perhaps Farah might want to explain why he allows Boone's column to remain on his website when his fellow right-wingers have determined it to be too...
No Oil for Pacifists (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
John Hawkins of Right Wing News polled right-of-center bloggers for their least favorite people on the left. The results are here : Nancy Pelosi came in first; President Obama was second. I was among the bloggers polled. My unranked list of least respected lefties is: Barack Obama Helen Thomas Katie Couric Rep. Henry Waxman Rep. Jerrold Nadler Al Gore Michael Moore Rep. Barney Frank Andrew...
Track-A-'Crat (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
... bear kinda reminds me of other pieces of necromantic magik, such as Dianne Feinstein . And Helen Thomas . And Henry Waxman . And Robert Byrd . Aaaaaannd I’ll stop there because I’m really not trying to make you guys stab your own eyes out…
NY Daily News (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
BROWNE-Carmel. On October 28, 2009. Native of Charleville, Co. Cork, Ireland. Beloved sister of Breda Dunlea of Dublin, and predeceased by her late sisters Helen O'Keefe, Noreen Browne & Margaret Sheehan.
et alli. (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
If Fox Is Partisa n, It Is Not Alone I had planned to do a blog entry 10 days ago the controversy over White House exclusion of Fox "News" from news making events and I assume from private "off-the-record" backgrounders. I don't view this as new practice. Just look at how the Bush Press Secretaries treated Helen Thomas or New York Times Reporters. Then I felt the subject had been adequately...
