Tag: Helen Thomas

NOVANEWS By Lawrence Davidson Helen Thomas, the renowned journalist, died on 20 July 2013 at the age of 92. She was the first woman journalist to cover the White House and did so for an unprecedented 50 years. She lasted in that job despite always asking the tough questions. It was a glorious run besmirched only late in her career by opportunistic attacks by Zionist American ideologues. When that happened, as described below, I wrote a piece in her defence. It was originally put online on 23 June 2010, but is here represented in an updated form. Helen Thomas gets angry Helen Thomas was the most respected of the White House press corps. However, she made the mistake of wearing her feelings on her sleeve, so to speak, on a topic of deadly political sensitivity. She said out loud that the ...