Helen Thomas 1920-2013 — War in Context

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.(...)