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| '''WorldNetDaily''' ('''WND''') is an American online web site that publishes editorials from a ] point of view. It was founded in May 1997 by ] with the stated intentions of "exposing wrongdoing, corruption and abuse of power."<ref name="WNDAbout">{{cite web |url=http://www.worldnetdaily.com/About%20WND |title=About Us |accessdate=2009-03-15 |year=2009 |publisher=WorldNetDaily|author=Andrew Sullivan|publisher=The Times}}</ref> In addition to articles, the site also maintains a message board and conducts polls. It is headquartered in ]<ref>"." WorldNetDaily. Retrieved on August 14, 2009.</ref> | '''WorldNetDaily''' ('''WND''') is an ] American online web site that publishes editorials from a ] and pro-] point of view. It was founded in May 1997 by ] with the stated intentions of "exposing wrongdoing, corruption and abuse of power."<ref name="WNDAbout">{{cite web |url=http://www.worldnetdaily.com/About%20WND |title=About Us |accessdate=2009-03-15 |year=2009 |publisher=WorldNetDaily|author=Andrew Sullivan|publisher=The Times}}</ref> In addition to articles, the site also maintains a message board and conducts polls. It is headquartered in ]<ref>"." WorldNetDaily. Retrieved on August 14, 2009.</ref> | ||
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| Type | Online news site |
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| Format | Website |
| Owner(s) | WorldNetDaily.com, Inc. |
| Editor-in-chief | Joseph Farah |
| Managing editor | David Kupelian |
| News editor | Joe Kovacs |
| Founded | 1997 |
| Headquarters | Washington, D.C. |
| Website | WorldNetDaily.com |
WorldNetDaily (WND) is an far-right American online web site that publishes editorials from a Christian conservative and pro-] point of view. It was founded in May 1997 by Joseph Farah with the stated intentions of "exposing wrongdoing, corruption and abuse of power." In addition to articles, the site also maintains a message board and conducts polls. It is headquartered in Washington, D.C.
History
WorldNetDaily (WND) a prominent member of the growing "NewMedia" was founded in May 1997 by Joseph and Elizabeth Farah as "an independent news company dedicated to uncompromising journalism." In 1999, WorldNetDaily.com, Inc., with offices in Cave Junction, Oregon, was incorporated in Delaware. In August 2001, Business Week cited Farah who claimed WND had begun to turn a profit. Currently the webpage has a staff of approximately 25 people.
In 2007 it was headquartered in Medford, Oregon.
Description
WorldNetDaily provides news and editorials, publishes letters to the editor, maintains forums, and conducts a daily poll. The editorial content has a right wing conservative and libertarian perspective.
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. The website's Commentary page features 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. The site 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; publishing house, WND Books; or 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."
Reach
WorldNetDaily says it is the "the largest independent, full-service newssite in the world." WND currently claims eight million visitors a month to its website. WorldNetDaily articles are often linked by other websites, including the Drudge Report. Quantcast said that WND.com had 33 million monthly visitors, or, about 1 million daily visitors, as of September 2009.
From July 2000 to early 2002, WorldNetDaily offered a service called TalkNetDaily, which provided an Internet audio stream of a daily talk show by then-WND columnist Geoff Metcalf.
WND has been criticized as unreliable, "false" and "far-right." Notably, WND columnist Jerome Corsi was criticized for his book The Obama Nation, and Farah defended him. Farah claimed Corsi was the victim of an, "attempted media lynching," and urged sympathizers to purchase extra copies of the book to boost sales and to give those copies to friends.
WND Books
WorldNetDaily also publishes books under the name WND Books. The imprint was launched in 2002 through a partnership with Thomas Nelson Publishers (a prominent 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; Thomas Nelson has continued the division under the Nelson Current imprint. The WND Books imprint was subsequently published under a partnership with Cumberland House Publishing 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. In January 2008, WND announced it had acquired World Ahead Media.
Controversial articles
WND has published many articles that have created controversies and criticism of the site by other media outlets. Some of these include:
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." 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 denouncing Postrel and Taranto as, "political correctness police."
Valerie Plame leak
WND reported significant claims about the Plame leak. One World Net Daily article reported:
Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely told WorldNetDaily that Wilson mentioned Plame's status as a CIA employee over the course of at least three, possibly five, conversations in 2002 in the Fox News Channel's "green room" in Washington, D.C., as they waited to appear on air as analysts.
...Vallely says, according to his recollection, Wilson mentioned his wife's job in the spring of 2002 -- more than a year before Robert Novak's July 14, 2003, column identified her, citing senior administration officials, as "an Agency operative on weapons of mass destruction."
As noted above Vallely said he was told once in the spring of 2002, but on November 9, 2005, WND published an update on Vallely's revised recollection:
After recalling further over the weekend his contacts with Wilson, Vallely says now it was on just one occasion – the first of several conversations – that the ambassador revealed his wife's employment with the CIA and that it likely occurred some time in the late summer or early fall of 2002. He is certain, he says, the conversation took place in 2002.
Middle East reporting
In early 2005, WND hired Aaron Klein to run a Jerusalem bureau. ConWebWatch, a website critical of conservative new media, in early 2006 alleged that Klein's articles promoted the causes of Israeli settlers in the West Bank and Gaza who opposed Israel's unilateral disengagement plan from those areas. The group also argued that Klein did not disclose the ties of Israeli activists tied to the far-right Kach and Kahane Chai movement. When Eden Natan-Zada shot and killed four people on a bus in northern Israel on August 4, 2005, he was beaten to death afterwards by a crowd that witnessed the shooting. Klein wrote an article for WND claiming that Zada was "murdered" by a "mob of Palestinians" after the shooting, although he also mentioned that police called the shooting a "Jewish terror attack." Klein has also written numerous articles critical of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
Litvinenko and terrorism conspiracy
On December 3, 2006 a WND article said that: "Reports that KGB defector Alexander Litvinenko converted to Islam before his mysterious poisoning with radioactive polonium 210 is raising suspicions that he may have been involved in a plot to smuggle the deadly substance to terrorist groups." According to an article in The Times, apparently mentioning the WND article, the evidence for these suspicions was "gossip from his Muslim next-door neighbour."
Anglo-Saxon identity
A commentary by Canadian evangelical Tristan Emmanuel decried so called "Anglo-Saxon self-hatred" in Canada and the United States, and used "warring factions" of third world immigrants as a base against multiculturalism in order to suggest a whites-only immigration policy for North America.
An article by Ilana Mercer, published concurrently in the white nationalist publication VDARE, presents the Declaration of Independence and its authorship by Thomas Jefferson as evidence of the supremacy of the Anglo-Saxon racial "stock".
North American Union conspiracy theories
During the debate over the failed 2007 Immigration Bill, WND popularized opposition to an alleged "North American Union (NAU)", a dystopian vision of a future America politically and economically merged with Canada and Mexico, in a fashion similar to the European Union. WND blames a "shadow government" in the form of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) for the alleged NAU plot. CFR Conspiracy theories are not a new phenomenon. Jerome Corsi, a popular WND columnist, has penned a book about the alleged plot called The Late, Great USA, which was promoted by the website. The "North American Union" is considered a conspiracy theory by popular social conservatives such as Michael Medved and Kimberley Strassel, and has been disputed in the mainstream media.
Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theories
During the closing days of the 2008 presidential campaign, and in the weeks following Barack Obama's election as president of the United States, WorldNetDaily posted numerous articles questioning Obama's citizenship status and consequent eligibility to be president. WND frequently posted articles on its homepage giving updates on numerous lawsuits that questioned Obama's citizenship status and were aimed at postponing the election and, later, the inauguration. These articles featured interviews with the plaintiffs, which included former New Jersey lawyer Leo Donofrio, 9/11 Truth attorney Philip J. Berg, and former Republican presidential candidate Alan Keyes. WND and Joseph Farah also touted The Obama Nation, a book critical of Obama written by WND staff reporter Jerome Corsi, which claimed that Obama was born in Kenya. Such claims were disputed by Obama's campaign, progressive bloggers, news outlets, and Hawaii's state health department.
WND also 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. 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. Several WND commentators have written columns demanding that the birth certificate be released, including Farah; Corsi; Christian television host Hal Lindsey; Faith and Values Coalition co-chair Janet Porter and talk radio host Barbara Simpson.
In an August 23, 2008, article about Berg's lawsuit, WND claimed it had investigated Obama's Hawaiian birth certificate utilizing forgery experts and, "found the document to be authentic," contradicting claims made in other WND articles and in Corsi's book. However, on December 20, after numerous liberal websites, politicians and media personalities touted WND's findings, Joseph Farah claimed in a WND column that the forgery experts had not actually concluded it was authentic and that, "None of them could report conclusively that the electronic image was authentic or that it was a forgery." After MSNBC's Keith Olbermann named Farah the "Worst Person in the World" on his show, Countdown, for his apparent reversal, 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."
On August 2, 2009, WorldNetDaily published an article claiming that a certified copy of registration of Obama's birth had been obtained and produced by Orly Taitz, a leading citizenship conspiracy theorist. The document purportedly proved that Barack Obama had been born at a hospital in Mombasa, Kenya. The document has almost immediately proven to be a fake. On September 6, Taitz released another birth certificate supposedly proving Obama's Kenyan birth; this was also debunked as a fake, this time by WND reporter Jerome Corsi.
Libel lawsuit
On September 20, 2000, WND published an article 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 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 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; but, on February 13, 2008, WND announced that a confidential out-of-court settlement had been reached with Jones. 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.
Health care reform and Nazi concentration camps
WorldNetDaily has argued against health care reform in the United States, in one article stating that the reforms appear designed "to create the type of detention centre" that people "fear" could be used as "concentration camps for political dissidents, such as occurred in Nazi Germany."
Columnists
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- Michael Ackley
- Gary Aldrich
- Jani Allan
- Tom Ambrose
- Lawrence Auster
- Chuck Baldwin
- Samuel Blumenfeld
- Alan Bock
- Pat Boone
- Neal Boortz
- Shmuley Boteach
- Linda Bowles
- David Broder
- Harry Browne
- Pat Buchanan
- Doug Casey
- Jack Cashill
- Jane Chastain
- Mona Charen
- Linda Chavez
- Robert Cihak
- Jerome Corsi
- Ann Coulter
- Barbara Curtis
- Vox Day
- John N. Doggett
- Brian Doherty
- David Dolan
- Jon Dougherty
- Larry Elder
- Jerry Falwell
- Elizabeth Farah
- Joseph Farah
- Don Feder
- Samuel T. Francis
- James Freeman
- Lenora B. Fulani
- John Fund
- Frank Gaffney
- Leah Garchik
- James Glassman
- Michael Glueck
- Ellen Goodman
- Cynthia Grenier
- Richard Grenier
- Rebecca Hagelin
- David Hackworth
- Sean Hannity
- Nat Hentoff
- Paul Jennings Hill
- Bob Howard
- Rusty Humphries
- Molly Ivins
- Thomas Jipping
- Bob Just
- Mickey Kaus
- Michael Kelly
- D. James Kennedy
- Alan Keyes
- Devvy Kidd
- Larry King
- Les Kinsolving
- Morton Kondracke
- Joe Kovacs
- Charles Krauthammer
- David Kupelian
- Howard Kurtz
- Greg Laurie
- John Leo
- David Limbaugh
- Hal Lindsey
- Anthony LoBaido
- Ellen Makkai
- Michelle Malkin
- Jackie Mason
- Mychal Massie
- Chris Matthews
- Ron Maxwell
- Craige McMillan
- Wendy McElroy
- Mary McGrory
- Michael Medved
- Ilana Mercer
- Joel Miller
- Roy Moore
- Melanie Morgan
- Chuck Norris
- Bill O'Reilly
- Maralyn Lois Polak
- Janet (Folger) Porter
- Doug Powers
- Dennis Prager
- Burt Prelutsky
- Bill Press
- Dave Ramsey
- Ellen Ratner
- Lew Rockwell
- Erik Rush
- Jim Rutz
- Matt Sanchez
- Chelsea Schilling
- Phyllis Schlafly
- Laura Schlessinger
- Jim Sexton
- Benjamin Shapiro
- Barbara Simpson
- Craig Smith
- Paul Sperry
- Jill Stanek
- Bill Steigerwald
- Jacob Sullum
- Vin Suprynowicz
- Cassandra Walker
- Jude Wanniski
- Ellis Washington
- Lionel Waxman
- Walter E. Williams
- Hans Zeiger
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One of the most popular far-right websites, WorldNetDaily (with 5m readers a month), has argued that Obama's healthcare reforms appear designed, "to create the type of detention centre" that people "fear" could be used as "concentration camps for political dissidents, such as occurred in Nazi Germany."