Modern Censorship: the subtle yet constant and sophisticated manipulation of reality in our mass media outlets.
A sad day for women in media with today's retirement announcement of the legendary Helen Thomas over controversial remarks she made on Israel. Helen, a trailblazer for women's rights and media freedom is pushing 90. In spite of her apology, Helen's carreer has been destroyed with brutal public humiliation from the White House rebuking her statement. This bio that I am posting from Google's cache was pulled by the speakers bureau who cancelled her engagement and pulled all association with her from their website. Whether a slip of a journo's tongue or a desire to tell the truth, the power elite can destroy any one. We ♥♥ Helen!
The following is the full text of the Google Cache file that we dug up. It was featured on May 13,2010 by the American Entertainment International Speakers Bureau and deleted.
When we attempted to post the same cache file on Facebook, it was flagged as 'offensive' and therefore not eligible for posting. So, we are posting it here.
Helen Thomas bio, the full text from aeispeakers.com posted and deleted below:
Commonly referred to as "The First Lady of the Press," former White House Bureau Chief Helen Thomas is a trailblazer, breaking through barriers for women reporters while covering every President since John F. Kennedy. For 57 years, Helen Thomas also served as White House correspondent for United Press International. She recently left this post and joined Hearst Newspapers as a syndicated columnist.
Born in Winchester, Kentucky, Helen Thomas was raised in Detroit, Michigan where she attended public schools and later graduated from Wayne State University. Upon leaving college, Helen served as a copy girl on the old, now defunct Washington Daily News. In 1943, Ms. Helen Thomas joined United Press International and the Washington Press Corps.
For 12 years, Helen Thomas wrote radio news for UPI, her work day beginning at 5:30 a.m. Eventually she covered the news of the Federal government, including the FBI and Capitol Hill.
In November, 1960, Helen Thomas began covering then President elect John F. Kennedy, following him to the White House in January, 1961 as a member of the UPI team. It was during this first White House assignment that Thomas began closing presidential press conferences with "Thank you, Mr. President."
In September, 1971, Pat Nixon scooped Helen Thomas by announcing her engagement to Associated Press' retiring White House correspondent, Douglas B. Cornell at a White house party hosted by then President Nixon in honor of Cornell.
Helen Thomas was the only woman print journalist traveling with then President Nixon to China during his breakthrough trip in January, 1972. She has the distinction of having traveled around the world several times with Presidents Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, and Clinton, during the course of which she covered every Economic Summit. The World Almanac has cited her as one of the 25 Most Influential Women in America.
Helen Thomas has written four books, including Thanks for the Memories Mr. President: Wit and Wisdom from the Front Row at the White House, Front Row at the White House: My Life and Times, and her most recent, Watchdogs of Democracy (2006).
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