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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: Sully- who wrote (8981)5/13/2005 2:24:09 AM
From: Sully-   of 35834
 
What? No mention of Dan Rather??

Common Sense and Wonder
by Jerry Scharf

Liberals giving an award to a liberal for being a liberal...how quaint.

I assume they just forgot to include Bernard Goldberg in their considerations of ethical journalists.

(Baltimore Sun)

The University of Oregon is standing by its decision to give former Sinclair Broadcast Group reporter Jon Leiberman an ethics award despite a protest from Leiberman's former employer.

The former Washingon bureau chief for Hunt Valley-based Sinclair, Leiberman was fired after publicly criticizing Sinclair's plan to run an anti-John Kerry documentary days before last year's election. For his stand, Leiberman will receive the Payne Award for Ethics in Journalism in Eugene, Ore., today.

David D. Smith, president and CEO of Sinclair, sent a letter to the University of Oregon last month noting that Leiberman was denied unemployment benefits by Maryland's Department of Labor. The state found that Leiberman deliberately disregarded Sinclair's standards of behavior or violated employment rules by speaking out.

Sinclair owns 61 television stations in the United States, including WBFF and WNUV in Baltimore.

Tim Gleason, dean of Oregon's journalism school, responded to Sinclair in a letter this week. He wrote that the labor department's finding "does not negate the fact that [Leiberman] acted in order to uphold values that are central to the practice of journalism in the public interest." Gleason also wrote that Leiberman's act was "a principled stand in the face of significant pressure."

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