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User:Jimmy McDaniels is topic-banned from any articles related to Jason Leopold and Truthout, broadly construed. Non-disruptive talkpage discussion is permitted. This restriction includes all edits made while logged into a Wikipedia account or not (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 13:47, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
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Edits which appear to be made by Jimmy McDaniels should be reverted. Persistent disruption from these IP ranges should be reported to WP:AN/I for enforcement of the topic ban. Yworo (talk) 02:04, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
I have attempted to rewrite the Air force training material to be a bit more neutral and encyclopedic and less breathless. Its worth noting that, although i credit Leopold with writing the original article [1], the article itself does not list Leopold as the author. I have emailed truthout to find out what the story is, and will update this article if need be. Bonewah (talk) 22:10, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
I've looked at the references for these, and there don't seem to be any "awards" involved. These appear to be simply "Top 25" stories of the year lists, not awards. To get some idea of the importance of these "awards", they should be reported by a third-party source, not the source supposedly presenting the "award". Calling these "awards" does not appear to be objective or factual, but simply someone trying to build up the subject. Yworo (talk) 20:34, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
I've just removed the latest entry for being even more irrelevant than the rest. Leopold was only one of several sources pointed out for his involvement in this story, and not even the first to publish. This is number 7 in a listing of top stories of the year, and doesn't even single out Leopold for mention, except as one of multiple sources, doesn't attribute the "breaking" of this story to him or mention an award of any kind in the text. Yworo (talk) 20:40, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
These are people and publications on wikipedia who list "project censored awards"
Since it mostly honors top 25 of independent media the coverage of the "awards" which is a top 25 list of stories not getting bigger coverage it's written about by places like New Times, etc. Alternative weeklies that is. Here is an article from the San Francisco Bay Guardian on the 2011/2012 honorees. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.56.205.222 (talk) 17:47, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
The article currently states that Leopold is the 'US correspondent' for 95bFM in New Zealand. According to that station's website, 95bFM is a college radio station, and i can find no mention of Leopold anywhere on their site. The only reference to Leopold being their correspondent is from 'the public record' here. Im not entirely sure that the claim being made here is true, and, even if true, it is noteworthy. I propose removing the whole sentence. Bonewah (talk) 21:27, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
Leopold is listed as "American Correspondent" here. But that's from 2009. — Preceding unsigned comment added by RavenThePackIsBack (talk • contribs) 23:02, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
This entry on Leopold is biased. It pays quite a bit of attention to two points in time. The Plame leak and the Salon fracas. Has anyone tried to find anything positive to balance this out? I've noticed this has been going on for a while. Leopold is still working, obviously. Surely there are other things that ha e happened in the past six years aside from the lower two entries on BP and USAF. 208.54.39.183 (talk) 01:09, 15 May 2012 (UTC) Lawrence Cutter
if there are so many people watching this article than why isn't anyone adding new stuff? That activity on the Freedom of Information Act is important for this article. Requesting conflict users weigh in on this article and review the edits and the questions that other people talked about regarding the bias. Also, request people to tell Bonewah that I ain't a banned user. It's really annoying. RavenThePackIsBack (talk) 04:54, 14 August 2012 (UTC)
Also, telling people to always take it to the talk page to do edits isn't the way it works for other wiki articles. That goes against the whole community thing. Anyone can do a google search and find all the new stuff that they should use to update the article so I don't get why new stuff isn't added to the article like it is for other articles like for journalists and celebs and politicians. RavenThePackIsBack (talk) 05:01, 14 August 2012 (UTC)
Request people allow this stuff to be included. There hasn't been any real answer why it was scrubbed. It just was for no reason.
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First off, your claim that it was removed without explanation is false. It was clearly explained that it was removed under the "banned user" policy. The editor who removed it believes you are a sockpuppet of Jimmy McDaniels (talk · contribs), who is banned from editing this article. Any editor may remove content they believe is being added by a banned user. I also believe you are a banned user, based on the IP address that you also use when you forget to log in. So, you are allowed to post suggestions for changes on this talk page, but you are not allowed to edit the article yourself. Clear? If you have a problem with this, follow the instructions given you in your dispute resolution request. Yworo (talk) 17:49, 16 August 2012 (UTC)
Do you think there is any value in using any of these sources:
I dont think that either of the Salon article or the Rove indictment sections are badly done, but i dont think they are fantastic either. Do any of these sources add enough value to be included in this article?
He's a contributor to Al Jazeera English and Al Jazeera America. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1012:B014:B048:AB31:C8B2:A68:183 (talk) 00:40, 15 October 2013 (UTC)
Uh....http://america.aljazeera.com/profiles/l/jason-leopold.html and http://www.aljazeera.com/profile/jason-leopold-.html
and how about updating this entry with all of the FOIA work and coverage he's gotten for his FOIA work and FOIA lawsuits that received coverage? http://www.courthousenews.com/2013/09/17/61225.htm and http://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2013/09/judge-orders-guantanamo-procedures-unsealed-172845.html and http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2013/09/doj-sued-over-access-to-report-on-cia-detention-policies.html
How about his lawsuit against FBI for Michael Hastings file that got covered? http://www.ibtimes.com/michael-hastings-still-under-fbi-investigation-controversial-reporting-after-death-according-1404127 and http://dailycaller.com/2013/07/29/lawsuit-launched-against-doj-for-fbi-records-on-michael-hastings/ and http://www.dailydot.com/politics/fbi-investigates-michael-hastings-story/ and more ...
How about the story on the Guantanamo hunger strike manual that he wrote for Al Jazeera that Mos Def made a video of? http://www.aljazeera.com/humanrights/2013/05/201358152317954140.html and https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security-prisoners-rights-human-rights/video-yasiin-bey-mos-def-undergoes-force and http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/6-horrifying-revelations-about-force-feeding-guantanamo
Or what about his story last week on the NSA's talking points that went viral? http://www.businessinsider.com.au/911-nsa-talking-points-2013-10 and http://www.pri.org/stories/2013-11-01/ten-talking-points-nsa-uses-justify-its-spying and http://www.salon.com/2013/10/30/nsa_top_soundbite_push_911/
And what about the story he broke on the dead Guantanamo prisoner and the FOIA on that? That got covered in the New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/29/us/politics/suicide-by-pills-is-cited-in-death-of-guantanamo-detainee.html?_r=0 http://www.lawfareblog.com/2013/07/dod-report-on-adnan-latif-death/
The point? This article is way out of date. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.213.163.212 (talk) 05:15, 5 November 2013 (UTC)
And avoids dozens of new stories that have surfaced over the years all in an effort to keep it negative. https://medium.com/matter/the-secret-to-getting-top-secret-secrets-1f693eaf609a104.12.136.14 (talk) 13:12, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
This is a HIGHLY biased article that purposely is kept negative. It fails to include nearly 8 years of new information, including awards, articles written about Leopold, his exceptional use of FOIA and testimony to Congress. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2605:E000:6089:8D00:5409:B0C3:A367:A09B (talk) 14:18, 25 June 2016 (UTC)
FOIA WORK
Unbelievable the people here keep this out and insist on relying on decade old material in order to promote a bias:
https://medium.com/matter/the-secret-to-getting-top-secret-secrets-1f693eaf609a
http://www.spj.org/quill_issue.asp?ref=2137
http://www.courthousenews.com/2014/10/24/72774.htm
The list goes on. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 104.12.136.14 (talk) 00:49, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
This is really a bad article and very outdated. Not including Leopold's FOIA work, widely written about by other reporters, makes no sense. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:306:80C8:8D50:7972:6815:9F01:FF24 (talk) 02:23, 5 February 2015 (UTC)
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He was one of the two reporters who wrote an article on BuzzFeed "claiming that Trump directed Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about the Trump Tower Moscow project." (https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/why-the-buzzfeed-story-on-trump-tower-moscow-is-different) If this story is accurate, it is a significant achievement; if it is incorrect, it is a significant black mark for the reporter. Once the dust clears, this report needs to be included in our article. 146.0.62.30 (talk) 14:00, 19 January 2019 (UTC)
I'll also note the article on Leopolds co author Anthony Cormier includes this which Leopold's doesn't proving my point that this is being steered toward negativity.
On April 5 2019, Cormier co-authored a story that was presented as an update to the January 2019 story and vindicated their reporting. The April story referenced a 12-page memo submitted by Cohen’s legal counsel to Congress that said President Trump “encouraged Cohen to lie and say all Moscow Tower project contacts ended as of January 31, 2016 using ‘code’ language”.[16] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1004:B04A:C632:18B9:523A:4072:8788 (talk) 02:53, 26 April 2019 (UTC)
The exclusion of controversy puts this article in violation of WP:NPOV and WP:BLPSTYLE. The controversies are well known/documented, so immediately readers are going to wonder about Wikipedia's reliability when viewing this article, which reads more like a fan-site. Disclaimer: Jason was an online buddy of mine years back, and agreed to help editors at the BP article by proofreading my suggestion for our BP oil spill coverage. This might be considered a COI, but I do believe if I had the time, I could pen a neutral controversy section here. However, I do not have the time, so have resorted to tagging the article for now. petrarchan47คุก 23:56, 20 January 2019 (UTC)
Sources:
This article has been biased and negative for years. It goes out of it's way to focus on the negative while avoiding positive to balance it out. Completely heavy on issues from the early aughts and avoids much of the past 8 years. Talks about an Emmy but doesn't speak of the story for which he was nominated. includes that he was a Pulitzer finalist and doesn't talk about that series either. The worst part is the FOIA entry which minimizes the extent of his work. And that first paragraph is hilarious using outlets, some of which don't even exist anymore. Finally, the photograph. Leopold has been a regular on maddow and Chris Hayes. Surely the picture can be updated. It does seem like its there to push that negative tone.
Also if you are going to include National Review, then balance it out with noted media critic and journalism professor Dan Kennedy who says this about the Trump Cohen story
https://dankennedy.net/2019/04/19/no-reason-for-buzzfeed-to-apologize-for-that-explosive-michael-cohen-story/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1004:B04A:C632:18B9:523A:4072:8788 (talk) 02:49, 26 April 2019 (UTC)
The NPOV tag should stay. The article is extremely biased and does not have any real balance. It fails to include anything of real substance post 2006, unless it is negative. Until the article captures the full scope of Leopold's work and what he has done the NPOV tag should remain. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1012:B04F:BC8:9968:5B7E:FBCB:2536 (talk) 19:59, 21 January 2022 (UTC)
This is one of the most biased, negative articles on a journalist focusing so heavily on ancient issues and fails to include any of the high profile work Leopold did over the past decade, including all of the major FOIA work like Hillary Clinton's emails, all the Mueller documents . This reads like someone has a vendetta against the journalist. 2600:1012:B016:BFF1:4E6:3061:C2C6:5C1 (talk) 05:26, 24 November 2021 (UTC)