Liz Trotta

Elizabeth Trotta (born 28 March 1937) is an American journalist and conservative commentator, best known for contributions to various Fox News programs.

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Biography

Trotta was born in New Haven, Connecticut. Her parents, Gaetano "Thomas" Trotta, a successful pharmacist, and the former Lillian Theresa Mazzacane, were both Catholics who had emigrated from Italy.[1]Beside her parents, Liz had a sister, Mary L. Juba, who passed away in 2002. Liz has three nieces, Susan Christian of California, Dorene Juba-Peplau of Connecticut, and Catherine Juba of Florida, and one great nephew and two great nieces who reside in Connecticut.

Trotta is a Fox News contributor and the former New York bureau chief of The Washington Times.[2] She began her career in 1965, covering the Vietnam War as a correspondent for NBC News and later working for CBS News.[3] Trotta has taught Journalism at Stern College of Yeshiva University. She has won three Emmy awards and two Overseas Press Club awards, and is a graduate of Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.[2]

Controversy

On 25 May 2008, Trotta expressed on Fox News an apparent desire that presidential candidate Barack Obama be assassinated prior to the 2008 United States presidential election.[4][5][6] While speaking about Hillary Rodham Clinton's reference[7][8] to Robert F. Kennedy's assassination, Trotta said:

“ ... and now we have what some are reading as a suggestion that somebody knock off Osama. Um, uh, Obama. Well, both, which we could.[9] ”

Trotta apologized the next day.[10] A petition demanding that Trotta be fired was soon up on Care2 gathering over 14,000 signatures.[11][12] More recently, on Fox News during the afternoon of Oct. 8, 2011, Liz Trotta mocked the participants in Occupy Wall Street for being “people who like good weather”, and who spout “the ravings of what sounds like the Unabomber.”[13]

References

  1. ^ Hoffman, Joyce (2008). On Their Own, p 243. Retrieved on 2009-07-06 from http://books.google.com/books?id=ZaQlHPGbntwC&lpg=PA243&ots=ozK15cdfgX&dq=Elizabeth%20Trotta%201937&pg=PA243.
  2. ^ a b "Liz Trotta". Fox News Channel. 2004-10-04. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,34775,00.html. Retrieved 2008-05- Trotta also holds a Bachelor's degree in English Literature from Boston University. 26. 
  3. ^ "Fighting for Air: In the Trenches with Television News.". The Washington Monthly. 1991-06-01. http://www.encyclopedia.com/printable.aspx?id=1G1:10843605. Retrieved 2008-05-26. 
  4. ^ "Fox News Contributor Jokes About Bumping Off Obama". Editor & Publisher. http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003808177. Retrieved 2008-05-25. 
  5. ^ Rutenberg, Jim (2008-05-27). "Same Joke, More Regret". The New York Times. http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/27/same-joke-more-regret/. Retrieved 2010-05-11. 
  6. ^ BET.com - News You Should Know » A Call For Liz Trotta’s Job After On-Air ‘Joke’ About Obama Assassination
  7. ^ Collinson, Stephen (2008-05-24). "Clinton tries to move past Kennedy assassination comment". Yahoo!. Archived from the original on 2008-05-27. http://web.archive.org/web/20080527234123/http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080524/wl_afp/usvote. Retrieved 2008-05-26. 
  8. ^ "What Does RFK's Assassination Have to Do with It?". YouTube. 2008-05-23. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vyFqmp4wzI. Retrieved 2008-05-26. 
  9. ^ "Media Frenzy". Fox News. 2008-05-25. http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&streamingFormat=FLASH&referralObject=769481. Retrieved 2008-05-27. 
  10. ^ Michael Calderone's Blog: Fox analyst apologizes for Obama assassination joke - Politico.com
  11. ^ "Fox News Commentator Criticized for Remarks". OhmyNews. 2008-05-27. http://english.ohmynews.com/ArticleView/article_view.asp?article_class=3&no=382654&rel_no=1. Retrieved 2008-05-27. 
  12. ^ "In the context of no-context". Los Angeles Times. 2008-05-31. http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/sunday/la-oe-daum31-2008may31,0,1316586.column. Retrieved 2008-06-01. 
  13. ^ "Fox News’ Liz Trotta: Occupy Wall Street Message Is Like ‘The Ravings Of The Unabomber’", Mediaite, 2011-10-08
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