Showing posts with label James Oliphant. Show all posts
Showing posts with label James Oliphant. Show all posts

Monday, November 14, 2011

Shouldn't actual "facts" matter to journalists even in their Tweets, or, is it every man for themself to get Followers? Just saying...


Below is a copy of a pithy email about last night's GOP presidential debate in South Carolina that I sent out to some media friends and acquaintances across the country last night.
Likely, during a timeout of a college football game I was watching.

That is, unless it was while I was watching Four Weddings and a Funeral for about the 50th time. 
What can I say, I've always been a Hugh Grant fan, and he's been in three of my favorite films, the aforementioned Four Weddings, Notting Hill, and Love Actually, all written by Richard Curtis, who directed the latter.
Coincidence? I don't think so.

My last post mentioning Hugh Grant was on September 28, 2010, in a post titled, Gloria Estefan climbs windows during Dolphins-Jets game, but Hugh Grant was The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain. Winner: Grant!

(For some people, I sent a screen grab of the Twitter section in the right-hand column of the LA Times website, for others, I just copied and pasted. The latter seemed easier to post here so it'd be legible.)

It's self-explanatory:

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Just saw this on LA Times website.
If someone is a professional journalist, shouldn't facts matter even in your Tweets, or is it every man for themselves?
Really, tweeting about something you think you might have heard on a streaming event?
It was on TV to make it easy and accessible, so who's watching the streaming version?


jamesoliphant profile
jamesoliphant Hard to tell from feed: I believe Bachmann just said she would get rid of Medicare.24 minutes ago · reply · retweet · favorite
MaeveReston profile
MaeveReston Watching#CBSNJDebate live stream is like listening to a constantly skipping record...31 minutes ago · reply · retweet · favorite
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Michele Bachmann sees bias in stray email






Tuesday, March 15, 2011

"Emergency" U.S. House Rules Comm. meeting Wed. re bill permanently barring NPR or affils from getting Fed funds; Larry O'Connor on Dennis Miller Show



3/14/11
Breitbart TV Editor-in-Chief Larry O'Connor talks about last week's James O'Keefe-inspired sting of National Public Radio (NPR) with Dennis Miller on his syndicated radio show
http://www.youtube.com/user/breitbart#p/a/u/1/7GTXXFCpAhg

Weekdays, 10AM-1PM EST
http://www.dennismillerradio.com/


Los Angeles Times
GOP prepares new assault on NPR funding as questions over video flap remain
A House committee schedules an 'emergency' session Wednesday to consider a bill that would permanently bar NPR or its affiliates from receiving federal funds. The move comes even though the video that brought down the broadcaster's chief fundraiser and CEO was apparently manipulated.
By James Oliphant Washington Bureau
March 15, 2011, 2:37 p.m.

Reporting from Washington -- House Republicans are preparing a new effort to strip NPR of all federal support, even as new questions have emerged from last week's scandal that forced an NPR fundraiser, as well as its chief executive, to resign.

The House Rules Committee will meet in "an emergency" session Wednesday to consider a bill that would permanently bar NPR or its affiliate stations from receiving federal funds. If it passes the committee, as expected, the bill could make it to the House floor later this week.


Read the rest of the article at:
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-npr-questions-20110315,0,4992364.story