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==Description==
==Description==
WND provides news, editorials, commentaries, letters to the editor, forums and conducts a daily poll. Its editorial content has a diverse range of viewpoints, though predominantly from a [[Right-wing politics|right wing]] or conservative perspective.<ref name="NY Times 5May2009"/><ref name='Nashville Times WND'>{{cite news |first=Drew |last=Ruble |coauthors= |authorlink= |title=Conservative pub criticizes Fisk's appointment of O'Leary |date=2004-08-20 | publisher=Nashville Times |url=http://www.nashvillepost.com/news/2004/8/20/conservative_pub_criticizes_fisks_appointment_of_oleary |work = |pages = |accessdate = 2009-03-19 |language = }}</ref><ref name='Dublin Independent WND'>{{cite news |first=Andrew |last=Gumbel |coauthors= |authorlink= |title=Right-wing Christians launch Christmas crusade |date=2005-12-08 |publisher=Dublin Independent | url =http://www.independent.ie/world-news/americas/rightwing-christians-launch-christmas-crusade-224774.html | work = | pages = | accessdate = 2009-03-19 | language = }}</ref> Besides providing articles authored by its own staff, the site links to news from other publications. Notable staff includes Jerusalem Bureau Chief [[Aaron Klein]], White House Correspondent [[Lester Kinsolving]], and Staff Writer [[Jerome Corsi]]. Its commentary pages feature editorials from the site's founder, [[Joseph Farah]] and other [[Social conservatism|social conservative]] authors such as [[Pat Buchanan]], [[Ann Coulter]], [[David Limbaugh]], [[Bill O'Reilly (commentator)|Bill O'Reilly]], and [[Chuck Norris]]. It also features weekly columns by [[libertarian]]s [[Walter Williams]], [[Vox Day]], and [[Ilana Mercer]], as well as liberal [[Bill Press]] and [[pro-life]] moderate [[Nat Hentoff]].<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.worldnetdaily.com/resources/columnists.asp | work = WorldNetDaily | title = WorldNetDaily: Columnists | accessdate = December 16, 2006}}</ref> WND also offers products for sale, advertising these products alongside related news stories. Typically these are products sold by its related book service, WND Book Service, by its publishing house, [[#WND Books|WND Books]], or by its retail operation, ShopNetDaily. The site also contains advertisements for WND's printed magazine, [[Whistleblower (magazine)|Whistleblower]], and other companies. WND also operates the ''G2 Bulletin'', a subscription-only website described as an "intelligence resource" for "insights into geo-political and geo-strategic developments."
WND provides news, editorials, commentaries, letters to the editor, forums and conducts a daily poll. Its editorial content has a diverse range of viewpoints, though predominantly from an extremely [[Right-wing politics|right wing]] or conservative perspective.<ref name="NY Times 5May2009"/><ref name='Nashville Times WND'>{{cite news |first=Drew |last=Ruble |coauthors= |authorlink= |title=Conservative pub criticizes Fisk's appointment of O'Leary |date=2004-08-20 | publisher=Nashville Times |url=http://www.nashvillepost.com/news/2004/8/20/conservative_pub_criticizes_fisks_appointment_of_oleary |work = |pages = |accessdate = 2009-03-19 |language = }}</ref><ref name='Dublin Independent WND'>{{cite news |first=Andrew |last=Gumbel |coauthors= |authorlink= |title=Right-wing Christians launch Christmas crusade |date=2005-12-08 |publisher=Dublin Independent | url =http://www.independent.ie/world-news/americas/rightwing-christians-launch-christmas-crusade-224774.html | work = | pages = | accessdate = 2009-03-19 | language = }}</ref> Besides providing articles authored by its own staff, the site links to news from other publications. Notable staff includes Jerusalem Bureau Chief [[Aaron Klein]], White House Correspondent [[Lester Kinsolving]], and Staff Writer [[Jerome Corsi]]. Its commentary pages feature editorials from the site's founder, [[Joseph Farah]] and other [[Social conservatism|social conservative]] authors such as [[Pat Buchanan]], [[Ann Coulter]], [[David Limbaugh]], [[Bill O'Reilly (commentator)|Bill O'Reilly]], and [[Chuck Norris]]. It also features weekly columns by [[libertarian]]s [[Walter Williams]], [[Vox Day]], and [[Ilana Mercer]], as well as liberal [[Bill Press]] and [[pro-life]] moderate [[Nat Hentoff]].<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.worldnetdaily.com/resources/columnists.asp | work = WorldNetDaily | title = WorldNetDaily: Columnists | accessdate = December 16, 2006}}</ref> WND also offers products for sale, advertising these products alongside related news stories. Typically these are products sold by its related book service, WND Book Service, by its publishing house, [[#WND Books|WND Books]], or by its retail operation, ShopNetDaily. The site also contains advertisements for WND's printed magazine, [[Whistleblower (magazine)|Whistleblower]], and other companies. WND also operates the ''G2 Bulletin'', a subscription-only website described as an "intelligence resource" for "insights into geo-political and geo-strategic developments."


==WND Books==
==WND Books==

Revision as of 16:46, 11 June 2010

WorldNetDaily
TypeOnline news site
FormatWebsite
Owner(s)WorldNetDaily.com, Inc.
Editor-in-chiefJoseph Farah
Managing editorDavid Kupelian
News editorJoe Kovacs
Founded1997
Political alignmentConservative
HeadquartersWashington, D.C.
WebsiteWorldNetDaily.com

WorldNetDaily (WND) is an American web site that publishes news and associated content from a U. S. conservative perspective.[1] It was founded in May 1997 by Joseph Farah with the stated intentions of "exposing wrongdoing, corruption and abuse of power"[2] and is headquartered in Washington, D.C.[3]

History

WND was founded in May 1997 by Joseph and Elizabeth Farah as "an independent news company dedicated to uncompromising journalism."[2] In 1999, WorldNetDaily.com, Inc. was incorporated in Delaware[4] with offices in Cave Junction, Oregon. In August 2001, Business Week cited Farah who stated WND had begun to turn a profit.[5] According to its website, World Net Daily has a staff of approximately 25 people.[6] In 2007 it was headquartered in Medford, Oregon.[7]

Seeking credentials to cover the U.S. Congress in 2002, WND had to overcome dogged resistance from the Standing Committee of Correspondents. The panel of journalists charged by Congress with administering press credentials has a history of attempting to exclude the upstarts from the corridors of power. Online publications had up to then usually not been accepted. The rebuff of the application, however, revealed that the conservative position of the publication was a stumbling-block. WND turned to the United States Senate Committee on Rules and Administration for help, arguing that the panel's decision had violated the site's constitutional rights to due process, equal protection, and freedom of the press. The treath of legal action and the publicity generated by the decision to deny WND access to the Congress induced the panel to overturn its unanimous decision. Shortly after, the rules were formally adjusted to clarify the participation of online publications.[8][9][10]

Description

WND provides news, editorials, commentaries, letters to the editor, forums and conducts a daily poll. Its editorial content has a diverse range of viewpoints, though predominantly from an extremely right wing or conservative perspective.[1][11][12] Besides providing articles authored by its own staff, the site links to news from other publications. Notable staff includes Jerusalem Bureau Chief Aaron Klein, White House Correspondent Lester Kinsolving, and Staff Writer Jerome Corsi. Its commentary pages feature editorials from the site's founder, Joseph Farah and other social conservative authors such as Pat Buchanan, Ann Coulter, David Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, and Chuck Norris. It also features weekly columns by libertarians Walter Williams, Vox Day, and Ilana Mercer, as well as liberal Bill Press and pro-life moderate Nat Hentoff.[13] WND also offers products for sale, advertising these products alongside related news stories. Typically these are products sold by its related book service, WND Book Service, by its publishing house, WND Books, or by its retail operation, ShopNetDaily. The site also contains advertisements for WND's printed magazine, Whistleblower, and other companies. WND also operates the G2 Bulletin, a subscription-only website described as an "intelligence resource" for "insights into geo-political and geo-strategic developments."

WND Books

WorldNetDaily also publishes books under the imprint WND Books. The imprint was launched in 2002 through a partnership with Thomas Nelson Publishers (a Christian publishing house) and released books by politicians and pundits like Katherine Harris, Michael Savage and Farah himself. The partnership with Thomas Nelson Publishing ended shortly before the 2004 election;[14] Thomas Nelson continued the division for a time under the Nelson Current imprint.[15] The WND Books imprint was subsequently published under a partnership with Cumberland House Publishing[16] and released books by Jerome Corsi, Tom Tancredo and Ken Blackwell, among other authors. In 2007, Los Angeles-based conservative publisher World Ahead Publishing became the publisher of WND Books.[17] In January 2008, WND announced it had acquired World Ahead Media.[18]

Criticism

WND has published articles that have created controversies and criticism of the site by other media outlets.

9/11 attacks

On September 13, 2001, WND published a commentary by Anthony C. LoBaido regarding the September 11 attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C., two days earlier. In his column, LoBaido outlined what he regarded as the moral depravity of America in general and New York in particular, asking whether, "God (has) raised up Shiite Islam as a sword against America."[19] Commentators Virginia Postrel of Reason magazine and James Taranto of the Wall Street Journal criticized LoBaido and Joseph Farah for the piece and called for columnists Hugh Hewitt and Bill O'Reilly to sever their ties with WND, prompting Farah to respond with a column of his own explaining that the article did not reflect the viewpoint of WND, and that it, like most other commentary pieces, had not been reviewed before being published.[20]

Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theories

Main article: Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theories

WND began an online petition to have Obama's Hawaiian birth certificate released to the public. The website also unsuccessfully urged Supreme Court justices to hear the Donofrio, Berg and Keyes lawsuits.[21] In May 2009, WND began collecting money to erect billboards asking, "Where's the Birth Certificate?", the first three of which appeared in Louisiana, Pennsylvania, and Los Angeles.[22] Several WND commentators have written columns demanding that the birth certificate be released, including Farah; Corsi; Christian television host Hal Lindsey;[23] Faith and Values Coalition co-chair Janet Porter[24][25] and talk radio host Barbara Simpson.[26]

WND has claimed it is confirmed that President Obama has spent at least $1.7 million on lawyers defending against requests for his birth certificate. [27]. This number has been contradicted by Obama's lawyers.[28]

In an August 23, 2008, article about Berg's lawsuit, WND reported it had investigated FactCheck.org's proffered image of the "Obama Birth Certificate" utilizing forgery experts and "found the document to be authentic."[29] On December 20, 2008, in a WND column, Joseph Farah claimed that an examination of the original Obama Campaign proffered image by forgery experts could not "report conclusively that the electronic image was authentic or that it was a forgery." [30] After MSNBC's Keith Olbermann named Farah the "Worst Person in the World" on his show, Countdown, for his alleged reversal,[31] Farah defended himself, claiming, "the veracity of that image was never the major issue of contention. Rather, the major issue is where is the rest of the birth certificate – the part that explains where the baby was born, who the delivery doctor was, etc...I can tell you WND has done its part to find out the truth."[32]

Libel lawsuit

On September 20, 2000, WND published an article[33] claiming that Clark Jones, a Savannah, Tennessee car dealer and fund-raiser for then-Vice President Al Gore, had interfered with a criminal investigation, had been a "subject" of a criminal investigation, was listed on law enforcement computers as a "dope dealer," and implied that he had ties to others involved in alleged criminal activity. In 2001, Jones filed a lawsuit[34] against WND; the reporters, Charles C. Thompson II and Tony Hays; the Center for Public Integrity, which had underwritten Thompson and Hays' reporting on the article and related ones[35] and various Tennessee publications and broadcasters who he accused of repeating the claim, claiming libel and defamation. The lawsuit had been scheduled to go to trial in March 2008;[36] but, on February 13, 2008, WND announced that a confidential out-of-court settlement had been reached with Jones.[37] A settlement statement jointly drafted by all parties in the lawsuit states in part:

Discovery has revealed to WorldNetDaily.com that no witness verifies the truth of what the witnesses are reported by authors to have stated. Additionally, no document has been discovered that provides any verification that the statements written were true.

Factual discovery in the litigation and response from Freedom of Information Act requests to law enforcement agencies confirm Clark Jones' assertion that his name has never been on law enforcement computers, that he has not been the subject of any criminal investigation nor has he interfered with any investigation as stated in the articles. Discovery has also revealed that the sources named in the publications have stated under oath that statements attributed to them in the articles were either not made by them, were misquoted by the authors, were misconstrued, or the statements were taken out of context.[37]

References

  1. ^ a b Burns, John F. (5 May 2009). "Britain Identifies 16 Barred From Entering U.K." The New York Times. New York City, NY: Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. Retrieved 26 Mar 2010. ...according to WorldNetDaily.com, a conservative Web site. {{cite news}}: More than one of |author= and |last= specified (help)
  2. ^ a b Andrew Sullivan (2009). "About Us". The Times. Retrieved 2009-03-15.
  3. ^ "Contact WND." WorldNetDaily. Retrieved on August 14, 2009.
  4. ^ ""World's 'No. 1 website' goes for-profit"". World Net Daily. Retrieved October 31, 2006.
  5. ^ "On the Web, Small and Focused Pays Off". BusinessWeek Online. Retrieved 2006-11-04.
  6. ^ "WorldNetDaily: About Us". Retrieved December 1, 2006.
  7. ^ "Contact WND." WorldNetDaily. December 25, 2007. Retrieved on August 14, 2009.
  8. ^ Michael T. Heaney: "Blogging Congress: Technological Change and the Politics of the Congressional Press Galleries" PS: Political Science & Politics (2008), 41:2
  9. ^ Jesse Walker: Galley gatekeepers: the politics of press credentials - Citings Reason, November, 2002.
  10. ^ Mark Thompson: New Media Often Takes Back Seat to Old Media on Press Credentials Online Journalism Review, April 22, 2004.
  11. ^ Ruble, Drew (2004-08-20). "Conservative pub criticizes Fisk's appointment of O'Leary". Nashville Times. Retrieved 2009-03-19. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  12. ^ Gumbel, Andrew (2005-12-08). "Right-wing Christians launch Christmas crusade". Dublin Independent. Retrieved 2009-03-19. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  13. ^ "WorldNetDaily: Columnists". WorldNetDaily. Retrieved December 16, 2006.
  14. ^ "Joseph Farah and WorldNetDaily". ConWebWatch. Retrieved November 14, 2006.
  15. ^ "Thomas Nelson Launches Political Imprint". The Write News. Retrieved November 18, 2006.
  16. ^ "WND Books signs 'Unfit for Command' author". WorldNetDaily. Retrieved November 21, 2006.
  17. ^ "New publishing partner for WND Books". WorldNetDaily. Retrieved November 23, 2006.
  18. ^ "WND acquires World Ahead Media". WorldNetDaily. Retrieved February 24, 2008.
  19. ^ "Judgement Day in Mystery Babylon?". WorldNetDaily. Retrieved September 13, 2001.
  20. ^ "The new political correctness police". WorldNetDaily. Retrieved September 26, 2001.
  21. ^ Please check eligibility, thousands ask Supremes, WorldNetDaily, 16 January 2009
  22. ^ Americans vote with wallets to see Obama documents, WorldNetDaily, 24 May 2009
  23. ^ What's Obama hiding from us?, WorldNetDaily, 17 October 2008
  24. ^ Rathergate II: Certification of Live Birth a clear forgery, WorldNetDaily, 25 November 2008]
  25. ^ The Constitution still matters, 11 November 2008
  26. ^ Obama, tell us the truth, WorldNetDaily, 20 October 2008
  27. ^ Appeals Court told Obama "Security Risk.", January 20, 2010
  28. ^ [1] What's Obama's Legal Birther Bill?
  29. ^ Democrat sues Sen. Obama over "fraudulent candidacy", WorldNetDaily, 23 August 2008
  30. ^ Quoting WND, WorldNetDaily, 20 December 2008
  31. ^ Keith Olbermann, Joseph Farah. Countdown: Worst Person Jan. 5, 2009. Event occurs at 1:19/2:24. Retrieved May 16, 2010. But our winner, Joseph Farah, the proprietor of WorldNetDaily. {{cite AV media}}: Unknown parameter |date2= ignored (help); Unknown parameter |month2= ignored (help); Unknown parameter |year2= ignored (help)
  32. ^ Farah, Joseph (January 13, 2009). "'The worst person in the world'". WorldNetDaily. Washington, D.C.: WorldNetDaily.com Inc. Retrieved May 17, 2010. At that time of that report, the best information WND had suggested the image of Obama's birth certificate was genuine. However, the veracity of that image was never the major issue of contention.
  33. ^ Thompson II, Charles C., and Hays, Tony. "Officials say Gore killed drug probe". WorldNetDaily. Retrieved February 18, 2008.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  34. ^ "Second Amended Complaint" (PDF). Retrieved February 18, 2008.
  35. ^ ;Krepel, Terry. "WorldNetDaily on Trial". ConWebWatch. Retrieved February 18, 2008.
  36. ^ Unruh, Bob. "Future of reporting scheduled for trial". WorldNetDaily. Retrieved February 18, 2008.
  37. ^ a b "WND settles $165 million libel case". WorldNetDaily. Retrieved February 18, 2008.
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