Pioneering journalist Helen Thomas dies at 92

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Pioneering journalist Helen Thomas dies at 92 | News , International | THE DAILY STAR
▻http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/International/2013/Jul-20/224434-long-time-white-house-reporter-helen-thomas-dies.ashx

Her refusal to conceal her strong opinions, even when posing questions to a president, and her public hostility toward Israel, caused discomfort among colleagues.
In 2010, that tendency finally ended a career which had started in 1943 and made her one of the best known journalists in Washington. On a videotape circulated on the Internet, she said Israelis should “get out of Palestine” and “go home” to Germany, Poland or the United States. The remark brought down widespread condemnation and she ended her career.

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Kassem @kassem CC BY-NC-SA 20/07/2013

Mort de la doyenne des correspondants de la Maison Blanche - FRANCE 24
▻http://www.france24.com/fr/20130720-mort-doyenne-correspondants-maison-blanche
Elle avait commencé à couvrir la Maison Blanche pour l’agence de presse UPI dans les années 60, à l’époque du président Kennedy, et était restée en poste jusqu’en 2010 et son départ en retraite survenu après des déclarations controversées.

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Sharif Kouddous propose des vidéos :
▻https://twitter.com/sharifkouddous/status/358587661012832258

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Kassem @kassem CC BY-NC-SA 21/07/2013

Helen Thomas 1920-2013
▻http://warincontext.org/2013/07/20/helen-thomas-1920-2013
In 2010, Thomas described the way she was betrayed by the White House press corps — many of whose members will today be stepping up to offer their vacuous words of praise.

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gonzo @gonzo CC BY-NC 21/07/2013

Version un peu mons soft de ses propos sur Israëk ici (Obama, déjà, nous faisait beaucoup rire !)

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Pour la petite histoire : Helen Thomas, dont les parents venaient de Tripoli (Liban) :
▻http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Thomas
Born in Winchester, Kentucky, Thomas was the seventh of the ten children of George and Mary (Rowady) Thomas, immigrants from Tripoli, Lebanon. Thomas has said her father’s surname, “Antonious”, was anglicized to “Thomas” when he entered the U.S. at Ellis Island, and that her parents could neither read nor write.

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Loutre @loutre 26/07/2013

Helen Thomas : defender of democracy
Rosemarie M. Esber/ The Electronic Intifada / Washington, DC/ 26 July 2013
Helen Thomas’ life was a relentless search for the truth, without fear or favor. It was her calling, profession and duty.
She loved being a journalist, and she strived daily to deliver accurate news to the American people. “If your mother says she loves you,” she was fond of saying, “get a second opinion.”
Helen burned with outrage at injustice. As the daughter of Lebanese immigrants, she was at the receiving end of racism and discrimination growing up in Detroit.
The memory of slurs hurled at her as a child still stung. She decried the racism and segregation she found in Washington, DC in the 1940s, arriving as a young ambitious reporter.(...)

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