Newspaper Guild President Linda Foley is going even madder...
http://www.newsguild.org/gr/gr_display.php?storyID=2328
In a new press release/article, she attacks what she calls "right-wing hysteria", "the vast right wing conspiracy", "right-wing screed", and more in her hit piece on anyone who disagrees with her. Her non-apology apology for her disgusting claims during a journalism gathering that American military is targeting and murderering journalists.
Why is she so angry? I'd sure like to know. She attacks everyone who disagrees with her as a right-wing loony...she attacks what she calls "talk-radio blabbers who peddle hate," and everyone else who disagreed with her. She says she gave one interview to Editor and Publisher, because she figured it "Was a credible publication"- in her eyes, any of the other media outlets that called on her to apologize for her outrageous attacks on the soldiers (wholly inaccurate at that) are not considered credible. Only a publication that will most likely not disagree with her is considered to be credible.
The head of Sinclair broadcasting is a "hack" in Foley's opinion. Why? Because they planned on airing that John Kerry documentary (it was an anti-Kerry documentary), a documentary she ALSO attacks (because it's right-wing in her mind, and all things conservative are evil, I'd assume.) So, Sinclair's chief is a hack, and she claims he never really "broke" (she puts the quotes around the word herself) story, since there wasn't a story to begin with.
A large newspaper union chief makes obscene claims that US military personnel are targeting journalists (no proof of this at all), yet that shouldn't have ever been a story?!! IS she insane? I have to honestly wonder.
She says:
It would all be amusing were it not for the vicious, mean-spirited—sometimes pornographic, sometimes threatening—e-mails and phone messages these hate-stokers from Fox & Co. generated. The misogynistic language and name-calling don’t bother me so much, although if some of these e-mails were read on a network program like the David Letterman Show, Brent Bozell (another social commentator who has called for my resignation) undoubtedly would be clamoring to get the entire CBS network thrown off the air for good for violating obscenity standards.
So, I assume she thinks that everyone with Fox News is a "right-wing" nut as well? Why even attack "Fox. & Co." as "hate-stokers"? That's immature, it's stupid, it's offensive, and it goes a long way to prove that she is, indeed, LEFT OF THE LEFT, as many have claimed of the group of journalists at the conference where she made her idiotic remarks.
This is the president of a large newspaper union for heaven's sake! Does that not say ten kinds of shit about our media in this country?! You thought Dan Rather was bad? At least he's not a stark raving lunatic. Foley clearly fits that description quite well, and she continues to prove it everytime she opens her mouth.
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