Tag Archives: Fifth Amendment

That hole in their story, again

Posted on May 27, 2009 by hro50ta1

By Joel Thurtell According to the May 21, 2009 Detroit Free Press, five lawyers involved with last year’s Kwamegate text message scandal have been charged with violating the lawyers’ canon of ethics and some may even have committed crimes in a coverup. … Continue reading →

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Judge ignores JOTR, but Convertino hears

Posted on April 29, 2009 by hro50ta1

By Joel Thurtell I was disappointed when U.S. District Judge Robert Cleland ignored my advice that he appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the behavior of federal attorneys and maybe even the Detroit Free Press in producing a January 2004 … Continue reading →

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Spin, spin, spin

Posted on April 27, 2009 by hro50ta1

By Joel Thurtell The more you repeat a lie, the more it overwhelms the truth. They know that maxim well at the Detroit Free Press. It took four writers, two of them Puliltzer laureates, to put that old rule to … Continue reading →

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Fixing Free Press A-C bias

Posted on April 16, 2009 by hro50ta1

By Joel Thurtell Normally, I’m not in favor of outsourcing, especially when it involves covering local news stories. How could reporters in, say, Bangalore, India have enough background, culturally and politically, to report accurately and concisely on an American news … Continue reading →

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JOTR to judge: Appoint prosecutor in A/C

Posted on April 8, 2009 by hro50ta1

By Joel Thurtell The twists and turns in the case of onetime Alaska Senator Ted Stevens must be mind-boggling to Washingtonians. But the outcome there might also turn some heads in Detroit, if a federal judge here chose to do … Continue reading →

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Not just my opinion

Posted on March 13, 2009 by hro50ta1

By Joel Thurtell Over dinner, an old friend who’s a journalist quizzed me about the case of David Ashenfelter, the Detroit Free Press reporter ordered by a judge to reveal the U.S. Department of Justice sources for his story that … Continue reading →

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JOTR to judge: Tell Dave to stick it

Posted on March 4, 2009 by hro50ta1

By Joel Thurtell All through the Kwame thing, we heard this drumbeat from the Detroit Free Press: This newspaper represents the public interest.  We need this or that record so we can better represent the public. We need judges to … Continue reading →

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Off guard and then some

Posted on December 14, 2008 by admin

By Joel Thurtell If somebody offered me a fifth of my favorite single-malt Scotch, I’d take it. But I hope I never have to take the fifth the way ace Detroit Free Press reporter David Ashenfelter took it on December … Continue reading →

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