Fox News chairman Roger Ailes to be given First Amendment award.

[edbermac]

The 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

As if the Chimp's speech didn't make you ill enough tonight...:puke:

[annabanana]

1. Is this the Onion?

really...

[Clark2008]

2. For what? Destroying it?

:shrug:

[valerief]

3. I guess if you abuse an amendment, you get an award for it. nt

[edbermac]

4. Saw it on HuffPo; here's the link.

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

[ixion]

5. FAUX does everything it can to destroy the free press, and they get an award for it

mind boggling. :crazy: :puke:

[bullwinkle428]

6. I didn't know Leonard Zeidenberg, but my guess is that

he's probably spinning in his grave as we speak...

[Lucky Luciano]

7. speechless

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[HuffleClaw]

8. seriously?

this isn't some parody?