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Journo razzes Politico

“BREAKING: POLITICO nabs Helen Thomas as first step in plan to ‘win the afterlife.'”
–Anonymous journalist jokes in a Monday tweet.

Helen Thomas fallout

•”Does anybody else wish that Helen Thomas had simply retired two weeks ago?” NYT‘s media blogger Brian Stelter in a Monday tweet.

•”Helen Thomas is retiring at age 89, effective immediately, after saying Jews in Israel should go “back” to Germany and Poland. Indebted as we are to her as a pioneer and a pistol, no way could or should she have stayed.”–Politics