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SOMEWHERE IN AFGHANISTAN--Two months ago long-time White House correspondent Helen Thomas got fired by her employer, the Hearst newspaper conglomerate, in response to her off-the-cuff slam at Israel. I criticized the firing on free speech...Show More Summary
Mystery: No One Knows Why Helen Thomas’ White House Briefing Room Nameplate Is Missing
It has been a little over two months since Helen Thomas' whirlwind retirement, and while the final days of her career were filled with controversy, she remains a historic figure in journalism. That's why I suggested, several months ago, that the nameplate from her front row center seat be enshrined on a plaque, either in the briefing room or at the WHCA.
SF Chronicle science editor Perlman wins Helen Thomas Award
San Francisco Chronicle | AJR David Perlman, 91, is the 10th winner of the prize named for the 90-year-old longtime White House correspondent. "With nearly 100 bylines last year, Perlman worked at a pace that left his colleagues in awe," Chron editor Ward Bushee wrote in the nomination letter. Show More Summary
Journalist Helen Thomas still making waves
Helen Thomas may have retired from her role as journalist, but the former queen of the White House press corps is still managing to cause trouble. In recent weeks, a planned sculpture of Thomas -- to be created by artist...
Sanchez Knocks Fox: “Don’t You Have To Be A News Organization To Get That Seat?”
Helen Thomas isn't the only one unhappy with Fox News getting the front row White House briefing room seat (along with a bunch of online campaigners).
Today Rick Sanchez asked CNN's White House Correspondent Ed Henry if you "had to be a news organization to get that seat."
Exclusive: Helen Thomas Tells Mediaite How She Feels About Fox News’ Front Row Seat
It may sound corny to some, but Helen Thomas is never very far a way from my thoughts, but the occasion of the White House Correspondents Association's re-assignment of her iconic front-row center seat in the Brady Briefing Room provided me with the impetus to speak with Helen for the first time since her controversial retirement. Show More Summary
FOX News Given Front Row Seat in WH Press Room
FOX News beat out NPR and Bloomberg for a coveted front row seat in the White House press room: "Since veteran journalist Helen Thomas retired, three news organizations—Fox News, Bloomberg News, and NPR—have argued that they should move to the...
AP Scores Helen Thomas Seat, Fox Gains Front Row
The coveted Helen Thomas seat in the White House press briefing room went to the AP yesterday, upsetting all three news organizations who'd been lobbying for it—Fox, Bloomberg, and NPR. But Fox moved up to the front row, into the old AP seat, and NPR moved into Fox's vacated...
Seat Shuffle in White House Briefing Room
The A.P. White House correspondent will replace Helen Thomas in the highly coveted front-row center seat.
Fox News Gets Front-Row Seat at White House [Journalismism]
Fox News is moving to the front row of the White House Briefing Room, beating out Bloomberg and NPR to take an empty spot occasioned by the retirement of longtime Hearst reporter Helen Thomas. And the AP moved somewhere, too! More »
Fox News Gets Front Row Real Estate in White House Briefing Room
After a hotly-contested race for Helen Thomas’s vacated seat between Fox News, Bloomberg and (recent entrant) NPR, Fox News has come out victorious. The White House Correspondents Association announced that Fox News will join the likes of CNN and the broadcast networks in the front row. Show More Summary
Fox News To Get Front Row Seat in WH Briefing Room
With the too-long-in-coming departure of the despicable Helen Thomas from the White House press room, newsies have been waiting with bated breath to find out who would get the seat she formerly wasted there. Fox News made its bid, of course, but many assumed that it would never happen. In fact, the leftist group MoveOn.org [...]
THE HILL: Fox News to move to Thomas’ front-row briefing room seat….
THE HILL: Fox News to move to Helen Thomas’ front-row briefing room seat.
AP Gets Helen Thomas’s Old Seat, Fox News To Front Row
The White House Correspondents Association has reportedly reached a decision on who gets Helen Thomas’s much-coveted briefing room seat. From Mike Allen: Congrats to White House Correspondents’ Board on its hard work: AP moves to Helen’s center seat, Fox to AP’s front-row seat, NPR to 2nd row. It’s an interesting shuffle and no doubt some speculation [...]
MoveOff
Perhaps my give-a-shitter is irreparably damaged, but I can’ manage much enthusiasm for a MoveOn.org petition drive to put NPR in Helen Thomas’ old seat in the White House briefing room. As far as I’m concerned, they can put a well-trained circus dog, a wax replica of the corpse of Chester A. Arthur, or [...]
Get Ready For a Helen Thomas Statue
Yep, this Helen Thomas. Helen Thomas statue campaign stirs controversy. The Arab American National Museum in Dearborn has launched a fund-raising drive to pay for a statue of legendary journalist Helen Thomas that concerns some in the Jewish community. Thomas, a former White House correspondent and native Detroiter born to Lebanese immigrants, was forced to [...]
Dearborn Muslims Are Erecting a Statue of Helen Thomas
Just as no good deed goes unpunished, no act of evil remains unrewarded for long — much less a whole career of evil that reached its crescendo with a denunciation of Jews so tasteless that not even the liberal establishment media could stomach it. This is why the Muslim colonists populating Dearbornistan are erecting a [...]
MoveOn.Org Adores NPR, Conducts E-Mail Campaign Against Fox Getting the Helen Thomas Seat
For anyone who does not think National Public Radio is a taxpayer-funded propaganda organ for the left, consider that the radical leftists at MoveOn.org are conducting an e-mail campaign to assign the "Helen Thomas seat" in the front...Show More Summary
Help NPR beat FOX News
Helen Thomas vacated her front row seat in the White Press (under ignominious circumstances, unfortunately), and now it's up for grabs. The White House Correspondence Association is going to decide whether to give it to NPR, Bloomberg, or, appallingly, Fox News. Show More Summary
Briefing Room to Play Musical Chairs?
Yahoo! News' Michael Calderone has the latest on the Fox News/Bloomberg/NPR battle for Helen Thomas' vacated briefing room seat:
There's speculation among White House reporters that the front-row-center seat Thomas long held may be awarded to none of them. Show More Summary