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To: THE WATSONYOUTH who wrote (730584)	8/2/2013 8:20:41 PM
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Did White House Have Something To Do With Chattanooga Editor's Firing? ........................................................................................................................................ A Tennessee newspaper fired an editor over a hard-hitting editorial denouncing President Obama's jobs plan on the very day the president came to town to tout it. This has the odor of White House revanchism. The Chattanooga Times Free Press insists that its firing of Drew Johnson for the title of his editorial, "Take Your Jobs Plan And Shove It, Mr. President," was unrelated to content, and merely a case of an insubordinate editor changing his headline to a riff on a song by Nashville singer Johnny PayCheck over another headline. Frankly, it's hard to believe. For one thing, it's odd in the news industry to fire someone over a headline that could easily be reversed on the Internet, if that's the issue. And it's strange for a newspaper to be angry about a headline that must have drawn hundreds of thousands of hits to the paper's website, with a prominent link on the Drudge Report. Would they prefer a dull headline over one that readers wanted to click? Lastly, Johnson said he changed headlines all the time at the last minute, something common in the industry. We have no special information, but it's significant that President Obama was in town that week, visiting an Amazon operation to tout his jobs plan. Johnson's hard-hitting editorial drew unwelcome attention to that failed employment blueprint. And this is a White House that has called up newspapers and asked them to remove lines in stories. In 2011, Gina Channell-Allen, president of the Pleasanton Weekly in California, said she "received a call from the White House asking us to take out part of the story because it reflected poorly on the first lady." The White House also threatened to blacklist San Francisco Chronicle reporter Carla Marinucci from the press pool during Obama's visit to the Bay Area in 2011 because she covered an unflattering-to-Obama protest. The White House has also targeted the press with the Internal Revenue Service, as happened to Commentary magazine, as described by editor John Podhoretz last May. Accuracy in Media's Cliff Kincaid reported that two other media outlets were also IRS targets. Then there is Media Matters, which colluded with the Justice Department about how to discredit reporters who ask hard questions, according to the Daily Caller. Did the White House have a hand in the firing of Johnson? Wouldn't surprise us. In fact, given events, at this point it's pretty much the first place to look. Read More At Investor's Business Daily: news.investors.com

To: THE WATSONYOUTH who wrote (730584)	8/2/2013 8:24:32 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 1578095

Zimmerman attorney details battle with prosecutors over evidence in murder trial ................................................................................................................. wftv.com ^ \| August 2, 2013 ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — Mark O'Mara said his legal fight with the people who tried to convict George Zimmerman is not over. On Friday, at a Tiger Bay Club luncheon in Orlando, O'Mara detailed the case that garnered national attention. Mark O'Mara described the struggle he said he went through to get evidence from the prosecution team of Bernie De La Rionda and State Attorney Angela Corey. He cited the picture of a bloodied Zimmerman, taken the night Zimmerman shot and killed Trayvon Martin, as an example. "It is undeniable that they had a plan in mind, with the 15 months that we had to get ready, of keeping information from us, and I don't say that lightly, I really don't," O'Mara told the group. A member of Corey's own team was fired and is now suing her office after he testified that prosecutors had kept evidence from O'Mara. "You have this type of gamesmanship for the sole purpose of trying to deny a fair trial and, as it turned out, try to convict an innocent man," said O'Mara. O'Mara has filed a motion that will be heard by Judge Debra Nelson. He claims prosecutors purposely withheld evidence from him and the defense team. Channel 9 has learned that O'Mara could go after Corey. She called Zimmerman a murderer on national television after the trial. "He could bring civil action against Angela Corey for statement she made outside the courtroom. Also, he could file a grievance against her with the Florida Bar," WFTV legal analyst Bill Sheaffer said. Sheaffer asked O'Mara whether he intends to drop the issue. "I am not done with that motion. I'm not done with Angela Corey. And we are going to be seeing more of each other. We'll see how that turns out," said O'Mara. "This is because this is not supposed to be how we practice as lawyers." Channel 9 contacted Corey's office for a response, but the call was not returned.