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Wall Street Journal Posts Alledged Trump Letter to Epstein; Trump Retaliates With Lawsuit
It won't go away quietly ; case in point . So what does the President do? One of the few things Trump is known for : U.S. President Donald on Friday made good on his pledge to sue The Wall Street Journal over its reporting that he wrote a “bawdy” letter for a leather-bound album that Ghislaine Maxwell prepared for the 50th birthday of Jeffrey Epstein, the financier and convicted sex offender who allegedly killed himself in jail while facing federal sex trafficking charges. Maxwell, who is now serving a 20-year prison sentence “for conspiring with Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse minors,” collected dozens of letters for the book, according to the Journal. [SNIP] The president’s history with Epstein has received heightened scrutiny in recent days, amid demand for the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to release its full files on the late sex offender. The two men were publicly associated with each other in the 1990s, up until a reported falling out over a business deal in 2004...
If You Want To Work For The Wall Street Journal, Don't Align With Any Other Journalistic Orgs...
From Reuters : The head of the Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA) said she was fired by the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday after she refused demands from senior editors at the paper to sever ties with the organisation and to not advocate for media freedoms. Selina Cheng, who worked in the Journal's Hong Kong bureau as a reporter covering China's automobile sector, was elected on June 22 to be the HKJA's new chairperson at a time of mounting pressure by authorities under a national security crackdown that has seen reporters arrested and liberal media outlets closed. "My supervisor in the UK directed me to withdraw from the election," Cheng told reporters on Wednesday after walking out of the Journal's Hong Kong bureau. She said she had refused. Cheng said Gordon Fairclough, the WSJ's world coverage chief, terminated her employment in person in Hong Kong on Wednesday, explaining it was part of a restructuring move. There was no immediate response to ...
In the Wake Of Julian Assange's Release, Mainstream Media Turns Its Attention to WSJ Reporter Evan Gershkovich
The Australian journalist who exposed war crimes and was barely acknowledged by mainstream media until he was actually freed (do to no small part of the activists and independent journalists who refused to let his trial go unnoticed) on one hand; on the other a WSJ journalist who happens to be on trial in Russia . Makes you wonder.
American Conservatives and Liberals Come Together to Push Islamophobia.
In the battle against those who criticize and confront the actions of the Israeli government and military, seemingly opposing groups end up aligning. From Common Dreams : A Wall Street Journal opinion piece published on Friday afternoon read 'Welcome to Dearborn, America's Jihad Capital.' And on Saturday, The New York Times published a piece by long-time columnist Thomas Friedman titled "Understanding the Middle East Through the Animal Kingdom." Dearborn, Michigan, a city with the largest Muslim population in the US, has increased its police presence, fearing hate attacks after the Wall Street Journal branded it America's 'jihad capital.' The Islamaphobic article was written by Steven Stalinsky, who is a commentator on' terrorism' and has served as executive director of the pro-Israel Middle East Media Research Institute based in Washington, DC. The mayor of Dearborn, Abdullah H. Hammoud, said Saturday that the city's police officers were ...