- The Art of Infowar
- 2010's Top Ten "Anti-Semitic" Quotes
- Arab-American Journalists Condemn ADL, Huffington Post
- Irving on Churchill & Hitler's War
- When Oprah got lambasted for opening a can of worms (updated)
- CNN Anchor Booted for Noting Jewish Discrimination in Media
- Anti-Israel sentiment grows in US
- Faurisson Identifies the Kryptonite: What the Zionists Really Fear
- Parasitic Zionists & their dupe-hosts destroy Helen Thomas' journalism career after her criticism of Jews in a video interview
- AP Origins, Setting up Romanovs, & Duping Twain
- Scarborough: Everyone In The Muslim World Hates America
- ABC News Reporter Makes Specious Claim That Iran Is Capable Of Producing Nuclear Weapons In Four Weeks
- Jewish hiker traveled to Israel before crossing into Iran
- NY - Pro-Palestinian ads arouse ire
- Anti-Israel aid billboards are taken down by CBS
You are here
Journalism group shelves Helen Thomas award
A national journalism group voted today to retire a lifetime achievement award named for Helen Thomas, following her controversial comments about Israel.
Detroit News, 14 January 2011
The vote by the Society of Professional Journalists follows Wayne State University's decision to shelve the Helen Thomas Spirit of Diversity in the Media Award. And it comes amid pressure from Holocaust survivors to distance the group from the once-celebrated White House correspondent.
Thomas, 90, grew up in Detroit and retired as a columnist for Hearst Newspapers last year after telling an interviewer that Israelis should "get the hell out" of the Palestinian territories and go to Germany, Poland or the United States. She caused further controversy by telling a crowd in Dearborn in December that "Zionists" control Congress, Wall Street and Hollywood.
Thomas was the first recipient of the journalism society's award in 2000. She can keep the award, as can other recipients including former NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw and Chuck Stone, founding president of the National Association of Black Journalists.
"SPJ will simply not give a lifetime achievement award (anymore,)" said Scott Leadingham, spokesman for the group
Theme by Danetsoft and Danang Probo Sayekti inspired by Maksimer