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Offline dpareja

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RIP Helen Thomas
« on: July 21, 2013, 01:06:33 pm »
http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/story/2013/07/20/helen-thomas-obit.html

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Helen Thomas, the irrepressible White House correspondent who used her seat in the front row of history to grill 10 presidents and was not shy about sharing her opinions, died Saturday. She was 92.

Thomas, who died at her apartment in Washington, had been ill for a long time, and in and out of the hospital before coming home Thursday, according to a friend, Muriel Dobbin.

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"What made Helen the 'dean of the White House Press Corps' was not just the length of her tenure, but her fierce belief that our democracy works best when we ask tough questions and hold our leaders to account," President Barack Obama, the last president she covered, said in a statement Saturday.

Thomas "never failed to keep presidents — myself included — on their toes," he added

If only there were more journalists like her.
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Re: RIP Helen Thomas
« Reply #1 on: July 21, 2013, 04:39:16 pm »
She was a hottie.
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Re: RIP Helen Thomas
« Reply #2 on: July 22, 2013, 08:10:53 pm »
Her niece, Suzanne Geha was our local anchorwoman for WOOD TV 8 for years. I gotta wonder how she is feeling about this.
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Re: RIP Helen Thomas
« Reply #3 on: July 23, 2013, 01:30:46 am »
If only there were more journalists like her.
News anchors all said that when Walter Cronkite passed. The irony damn near killed me.
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Re: RIP Helen Thomas
« Reply #4 on: July 24, 2013, 06:41:14 am »
NewsBusters is already getting pissed at people saying nice things about her and going on the attack. Because not being a right-winger = evil liberal media in their world. God, they're worse than Fox News.

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Re: RIP Helen Thomas
« Reply #5 on: July 24, 2013, 11:32:02 am »
NewsBusters is already getting pissed at people saying nice things about her and going on the attack. Because not being a right-winger = evil liberal media in their world. God, they're worse than Fox News.
So telling how they beat up an old dead woman, huh? She had more integrity in her little finger than the entire wing nut movement has in their....well, most of them can't even spell "integrity", so that's moot.
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Re: RIP Helen Thomas
« Reply #6 on: July 24, 2013, 12:32:02 pm »
NewsBusters is already getting pissed at people saying nice things about her and going on the attack. Because not being a right-winger = evil liberal media in their world. God, they're worse than Fox News.
So telling how they beat up an old dead woman, huh? She had more integrity in her little finger than the entire wing nut movement has in their....well, most of them can't even spell "integrity", so that's moot.

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