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Rob Bluey heads the Heritage Foundation's Center for Media and Public Policy and is a former assistant editor of Human Events. He's also known in conservative circles as among the brightest emerging stars on the Right side of the online news and opinion universe.
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Reuben F. Johnson
04/24/11 9:30 PM
At around 10 a.m. Moscow time on March 23, the world saw another example of just how dangerous it is to be an investigative reporter in Russia. Sergei Topol, a 55-year-old political journalist, was beaten by two men outside his apartment building. He was hospitalized with numerous bruises and a concussion.
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Arthur I. Cyr
04/24/11 4:00 AM
British-born journalist Tim Hetherington was killed in Libya on Wednesday by a rocket-propelled grenade, during the sort of heavy combat he covered remarkably effectively in multiple media platforms. American photojournalist Chris Hondros also was killed in the attack, and two other reporters were wounded.
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There was a time not that long ago that when somebody mentioned "blue chips," it wasn't uncommon to hear the stock of The New York Times included among those of General Motors, General Electric, IBM, and so forth.
Not anymore. The American Thinker's Steve McCann recently pointed to how far the old grey lady of American journalism has fallen, based on the company's fourth-quarter 2010 earnings report.
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Teresa Scanlan is the new Miss America. She's from Nebraska and it appears that she is both a conservative and a product of home-schooling, as she intends to attend Patrick Henry College, the campus near Purcellville established specifically for home-schooled kids.
During the pageant's question-and-answer period, Scanlan was asked about Wikileaks and the people's right to know. Here's her response, which was delivered confidently and without hesitation:
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It was only a matter of time. NPR Senior Correspondent Juan Williams was dismissed from the (partially) publicly-funded outlet on the grounds that he did not meet their “editorial standards” after having expressed nervousness about Islam. But Williams has had a strained relationship with NPR for a few years now — at least publicly.
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In the wake of Helen Thomas’s resignation, we’re confronted by a divide not between commentators and reporters, but rather between watchdogs and and purveyors of the conventional wisdom. While most news stories cite Helen Thomas’s “confrontational style” as a thing of “legend,” her record appears to be more about making news than breaking it. That glory takes away from reporting that can have a real impact, which is in steep decline.
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