The Enterprise Report

2ND ANNUAL ENTERPRISE REPORT INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING MEDIA TURKEY OF THE YEAR AWARD: WINNER JASON LANNING

By Eric Longabardi

In the spirit of the season we started a new tradition here at
The Enterprise Report last year.

It was our first annual MEDIA TURKEY AWARDS!

We are back for our second year!

After serious consideration by an esteemed panel* (not really, about 5-minutes max was spent on this) Actually the winner is a direct selection of TER's editor ERIC LONGABARDI. We do apologize for the delay of a day in handing out this year's award, we were busy gobbling down turkey and the fixin's yesterday and enjoying the new Muppet movie with my child and her grandmother today. 

Until yesterday we really didn't think anybody had really earned the coveted award this year. That was until someone sent us a link to an obscure blog that mentioned our mullti award-winning online news site by name. So we of course quickly reconsidered!

We have a winner again this year!

Our winner in a landslide is Jason Lanning, a so-called reporter based in Florida.

Jason it seems didn't like the fact that The Enterprise Report published his mugshot over two years ago (along with a few other media types who had some legal trouble in the sunshine state in the Tampa area) on this site after he was arrested. He also didn't like the fact that other media outlets did the same. Jason has since been cleared of some the charges brought against him. We applaud him getting his day in court.  Good for you Jason.

Jason saw fit to republish false, libelous and defamatory material about TER publisher Eric Longabardi personally on a sorry looking blog he publishes. After I pointed that fact out to Jason directly via his blog after being pointed to it, the spineless excuse for a reporter retracted what he had previously published and instead placed a link to the libelous material.

That should tell you everything you need to know about Jason Lanning. He is the kind of joke who should learn journalistic ethics (and journalism itself) before he starts going off half-cocked about what he thinks he learned in the minor leagues of the TV infotainment business.

The story TER published in 2009 about this guy Jason was in a humor feature section we call "Media Mugs: People in the News".  What the feature is about, (this is for Jason, since he didn't seem to understand the premise) is a humor feature about when people in the media get in trouble with the law.

We can only guess that Jason didn't get the joke or his IQ is too low to understand the concept. Nonetheless, as with everything we publish on this online news site, it was entirely accurate and fair.

We also would like to point out to Jason that if he feels our publication was libelous or defamatory, he should say so and find himself a good media lawyer. So far he has yet to even contact editor Eric Longabardi in regards to the publishing of the story of his arrest.

We can only guess he didn't get the joke. For the record, TER's publisher/editor would love to see his own mugshot online, problem is he (nor nobody else) has yet to find one!  I'm sure Jason will keep on trying, we wish him luck chasing ghosts as well as his own shadow!

But that's OK, inexperienced hack local TV infotainment reporters claiming to be "journalists" is pretty typical these days. 

Nonetheless, Lanning has earned our MEDIA TURKEY AWARD for his year!

Congratulations Jason! It's not a Dupont, but it's something for you to put on your resume!

Happy Thanksgiving Turkey!

AMERICAN TERRORIST IMAM ANWAR AL-AWLAKI KILLED IN YEMEN

By Eric Longabardi

According to top American administration officials, a U.S. air-strike has killed U.S. born Islamic cleric Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen. Despite previous claims, proven wrong that Awlaki had been killed in 2009, this time officials say the former San Diego and Virginia based cleric has in fact been confirmed killed by U.S. forces.

Yemeni government sources say the attack was carried about by a U.S. drone. Another American citizen, Samir Kahn, a U.S. citizen from North Carolina, who assisted al-Awlaki in producing an english language online magazine called "Inspire" designed to incite Islamists to attack the United States was reportedly also killed in the attack.

Al-Awalki, has been directly linked to the 9-11 terror attacks, having been the Imam at a San Diego area mosque in 2001 when he met repeatedly with members of the 9-11 terrorist attack. Despite that he was never arrested and was allowed to leave the United States in 2002. Based in Yemen ever since. That is where U.S. counter-terrorism forces have been searching for him.

More recently al-Awlaki was linked to the Christmas Day 2009 failed plot to blow up a Detriot bound airliner and the Fort Hood Massacre which was carried out in November 2009 by a Muslim U.S. Army Major Nidal Malik Hassan.

For more on The Enterprise Report's previous reporting on Anwar al-Awlaki related stories:

UPDATE: SAUDI BOMB MAKER LINKED TO CARGO TERROR PLOT: IBRAHIM HASSAN al-ASIRI

BREAKING NEWS: MAIL BOMBS FROM YEMEN STOPPED BEFORE THEY ARRIVE IN USA

THE CROTCH BOMBER: XMAS CARD FROM OSAMA: TERRORIST TRIES TO BRING DOWN DETROIT BOUND DELTA JET

UPDATE: AL-QAEDA CROTCH BOMBER: THE FEDERAL INDICTMENT

UPDATE: NOT CONNECTING THE DOTS: ABDULMUTALIAB 2009 CHRISTMAS UNDERWEAR BOMBER

BREAKING NEWS: TERROR IMAM ANWAR AL-AWLAKI INVITED TO PENTAGON AFTER 9-11

EXCLUSIVE: THE U.S. TERROR IMAM: READ THE FULL 2002 ARREST WARRANT FOR US IMAM ANWAR-AWLAK

BREAKING NEWS: NIDAL MALIK HASAN: TERORRIST LINK TO RADICAL U.S. IMAM AL-AWLAKI

MEDIA MUGS: STAY CLASSY LOUISVILLE: ONE TOO MANY IN KENTUCKY

By Eric Longabardi

John Boel was a long time anchor man at WLKY-TV in Louisville, Kentucky. He lost his job this month after he was arrested for the second time in two years for drinking and driving.

From the look of things Boel seems to have a long time drinking problem. Back in 2008 Boel was arrested and charged with driving under the influence and having an open container in his car. John didn't seem to get the message.

According to police earlier this month Boel was stopped pulling into the parking lot the Cabo Cantina Restaurant in Shepherdsville, KY. His blood alcohol level was reportedly .207 well over the legal limit of 0.08.  Boel's court date for this year's incident is slated for this week.

Now we are not going to judge John, because here at TER we have had a few too many Cabo Wabo nights over the years, but we learned long ago that when you are in the 'Cabo Wabo Zone', even if it's not in Mexico, never get behind the wheel after a night of drinking. Montezuma will always extact his revenge one way or the other!

MEDIA MUGS: THE FOOT, THE CUFF AND RODNEY KING?

By Eric Longabardi

Here at TER we've done a lot of stories about media people running into legal trouble over the years. We thought we had seen everything. Boy were we wrong! 

This story caught our eye because something just doesn't seem right. There may be a "teachable moment" available here so we're hoping somebody has already made the call to The White House for the nation's top mediator-in-residence.

Say hello to Eileen Jones, a longtime reporter with WSFA-TV in Montgomery, Alabama. Last month Jones was on her way to cover a story.  A tanker rig had spilled its load of fuel. The Police and Jones don't agree on what happened next.

According to Montgomery Police Jones refused an officer's order to stop. Then proceeded to run over his foot while driving away.  The officer, according to police tried to handcuff Jones and remove her from her car, but she got away. That's the police version.

Jones has a different story.  She says she was just doing her job, trying to make it to the scene of a story to do a live report when the officer got extremely agitated at her for honking her car's horn after she was forced to wait by the officer.  She then drove her car to where the officer was standing and that's when things went awry.

The officer claims Jones ran over his foot and fled after he tried to cuff her. Jones later said this about the officers foot claims:

"I think I would have felt it in the car if I had run over his foot"

That is when things went seriously wrong according to Jones. She claims the officers demeanor and actions made her fear for her safety.

"I was scared of that officer. I didn't know what he was going to do. I thought it was going to be another Rodney King."

MEDIA MUGS: TAMPA TV GONE WILD IS BACK: FLOWERS OF VENGEANCE

By Eric Longabardi

Let's just say we told you so.  We saw this one coming!

Tampa Florida for some reason has become our unofficial home base for TER's 'Media Mugs'. Former WSTP-TV Channel 10 anchor Jennifer Howe is our newest inductee.

According to local police, it seems she didn't much care for an officer who came to her house last Tuesday to talk with her about problems she was having with her neighbors. The visit prompted Howe's arrest for 'disorderly intoxication' after she, according to police, let the officer know her opinion of the matter.

The dispute with the neighbors stemmed from them testifying in a custody case involving her former husband. Who is he you ask? That's right, you guessed it, a former anchor for the same station!  

Then later that week police were called out again to Howe's residence to investigate alleged damage by Howe of her neighbors flowerbed and landscaping lights. Cops booked her on charges of criminal mischief and retaliation against a witness.

Everything may not be coming up daisy's for Howe last week, but taking out your problems on some innocent oleanders may be taking it just a bit too far!

For our previous MEDIA MUGS from Tampa check this out:

MEDIA MUGS: TAMPA TV GONE WILD