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Watch Late Pioneering Journalist Helen Thomas Challenge Bush, Corporate Control of U.S. Media

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Channel: Democracy Now! · 2013 · News & Politics

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http://www.democracynow.org - The trailblazing journalist Helen Thomas has died at the age of 92. Widely known as "the dean of the White House press corps," Thomas became the first woman assigned to the White House full time by a news service when she began to cover the Kennedy administration. She went on to cover every president since until controversial comments on the Israel-Palestine conflict forced her to retire in 2010. Throughout the two-term Bush administration, she asked some of the most critical questions in the White House press newsroom. Watch clips of Thomas questioning President George W. Bush on the civilian toll from the Iraq invasion. In a 2007 interview with Democracy Now!, she also questions corporate control over the U.S. media landscape, saying: "Media should be a public service. You cannot have a democracy without an informed people."

Watch two interviews with Helen Thomas on Democracy Now! at http://www.democracynow.org/appearances/helen_thomas. 

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