Fournier Named AP Washington Bureau Chief

[EV_Ares]

Published: August 01, 2008 11:39 AM ET


(((This is another issue the dems or whoever should challenge. This man should not have any hand in the presidential or the 2008 elections period with his support of McCain and republican politics))).

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WASHINGTON Ron Fournier, a former White House correspondent, national political writer and online political editor for The Associated Press, has been named chief of the AP's Washington bureau.

The appointment of Fournier, who had served as acting bureau chief since May, was announced Friday by Mike Oreskes, the AP's managing editor for U.S. news.

"The next Washington bureau chief of the AP must preserve the authority and standards we have spent 160 years building, while at the same time leading us into a new and rapidly changing world of journalism," Oreskes told a staff meeting in the bureau. "Fortunately, we have the perfect candidate at hand."

"There are few places in all of journalism more respected or closely watched than the Washington bureau of the Associated Press. And there are few moments in history when the AP's coverage of Washington has mattered more," Oreskes said. "The whole world really is watching Washington and American politics."

Fournier succeeds Sandy Johnson.

He joined the AP in 1989 in Little Rock, Ark., where he covered then-Gov. Bill Clinton. He moved to the Washington bureau after Clinton's election as president, and has covered the White House and national politics for all but a year since then.

Fournier, 45, won the Society of Professional Journalists' 2000 Sigma Delta Chi Award for coverage of the 2000 election. He is a three-time winner of the White House Correspondents Association Merriman Smith award: for coverage of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks; for coverage of the Clinton White House; and for exclusive coverage of Clinton's second-term Cabinet selections.

A Detroit native who attended the University of Detroit, Fournier began his journalism career in 1985 at The Sentinel-Record in Hot Springs, Ark., and moved two years later to the Arkansas Democrat before joining the AP. He left the AP for a year in 2006 to serve as editor-in-chief of an Internet social network site called Hotsoup.com.

Link: http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003834456

[Faygo Kid]

1. Fournier to Karl Rove: "Keep up the fight." He should be on Faux News, not AP.

This is what the media has come to. This guy is a friend of Karl Rove's:

Rove exchanged e-mails about Pat Tillman with Associated Press reporter Ron Fournier, under the subject line "H-E-R-O." In response to Mr. Fournier's e-mail, Mr. Rove asked, "How does our country continue to produce men and women like this," to which Mr. Fournier replied, "The Lord creates men and women like this all over the world. But only the great and free countries allow them to flourish. Keep up the fight."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/14/aps-ron-fournier-to-karl_n_112696.html

He says he "regrets" it. Bullshit. Who the hell would say such a thing to Karl Rove in 2004, when the pure evil of the man had been known for years??

Now this clown is AP Washington bureau chief. God help us all.

By the way, I'm guessing Fournier doesn't give a flying f**k about the real story behind Tillman's death and cover-up. I predict this will be a disaster for reporting all over the country, as papers use AP from DC.

We'll be reading leaked memos from Fournier to reporters on how to "slant" the news for the Repukes within a year. Awful.