Roger Ailes, Bob Woodruff, Kimberly Dozier To Be Honored With First Amendment Awards

[CatWoman]

he Radio and Television News Directors Foundation announced the recipients of its annual First Amendment awards, honoring Fox News chairman Roger Ailes and two television correspondents gravely injured by IEDs in Iraq, former ABC anchor Bob Woodruff and CBS News correspondent Kimberly Dozier.

Ailes will receive the 2006 First Amendment Leadership Award, which makes sense because where else could people talk about how great it would be to blow up Paris and how Teddy Kennedy is totally a "hostile enemy" for daring to oppose the troop surge. (The official RTDA news release says "Since founding the network in 1996, Ailes has made it the ratings leader among cable news channels," and cites his three Emmy awards; past honorees include First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams, Washington Post publisher/giant Katharine Graham, "60 Minutes" creator Don Hewitt, and CBS legend Roone Arledge.)

Woodruff and Dozier will each receive the Leonard Zeidenberg First Amendment Award, named for the late senior correspondent for Broadcasting & Cable, and presentation of the award will include a tribute to all journalists who have been injured or lost their lives while covering the Iraq war. Philip Balboni of New England Cable News will also be honored, receiving the First Amendment Service Award, presented to a recipient for their work in an off-air, management capacity. Balboni is president and founder of New England Cable News, one of the first regional cable news networks in the nation, and under his stewardship, news organizations have received Edward R. Murrow, DuPont-Columbia and George Foster Peabody Awards.

The awards will be presented March 8, 2007, in Washington D.C

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eat-the-press/2007/01/10/roger-ailes-bob-woodruff_e_38319.html

[JeffR]

1. Ailes? First Amendment? OMG

Next he'll be awarded a Medal of Freedom.:eyes:

[YDogg]

3. next up: presidentin' medal o' freedomization

[Bluzmann57]

2. How much did Ailes have to pay to get this award?

It's the only logical thing I can figure out. Why else would he get an award like this?

[Initech]

4. Wow... the guy that's done so much to repress the 1st amendment gets an award.

What the fuck?