- FrontPage Magazine
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name = FrontPage Magazine (FrontPage Mag)
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url = http://www.frontpagemagazine.com/http://www.frontpagemag.com/
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type = Political
language = English
registration = NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC. [http://www.whois-search.com/whois/frontpagemagazine.com Front Page Magazine] -WHOIS frontpagemagazine.com information] and TUCOWS INC. [http://www.whois-search.com/whois/frontpagemag.com Front Page Magazine] -WHOIS frontpagemag.com information]
owner = David Horowitz
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launch date =July 7 ,2000 [http://www.whois-search.com/whois/frontpagemagazine.com Front Page Magazine] -WHOIS information]
Expiration Date = 07-jul-2007
revenue =FrontPage Magazine (also known as FRONTPAGEMAG.COM) is an online conservative political magazine, edited by David Horowitz and is published by the
David Horowitz Freedom Center (DHFC) (formerly the Center for the Study of Public Culture), anon-profit organization inLos Angeles, California . It is a publication presenting aconservative viewpoint on various subjects.FrontPage Magazine's main focus is on issues pertaining to foreign policy,
war , andIslamic terrorism . It regularly condemns official enemies of the U.S. and is a strong proponent of thewar on terror , the Iraq War, andIsrael 's military actions. It has also published articles condemning what it perceives as left-wing organizations and causes, such as the Democratic party, the media, theenvironmental movement ,affirmative action ,reparations for slavery , left-wing interpretations offeminism ,Islamism ,socialism ,communism ,anarchism ,anti-war groups, theUnited Nations , and other matters.DHFC says that the FrontPage website was read by 500,000 different readers per month during
2006 . [http://www.horowitzfreedomcenter.org/FlexPage.aspx?area=2006_year_end_report Annual report by David Horowitz Freedom Center] ] [http://www.frontpagemag.com/Content/read.asp?ID=78]FPM Man of the Year
On January 1, 2007, FrontPage Magazine named
Ignacio Ramos andJose Compean its "People Of The Year - 2006". [cite web | year = 2007 | url = http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=26224 | title = People of the Year: Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean | work = FrontPageMag.com | publisher = FrontPageMagazine.com | accessdate = 2007-02-06 ] The twoUnited States Border Patrol agents shot drug smugglerOsvaldo Aldrete-Davila near the US-Mexico border. They had been convicted of assault with serious bodily injury, assault with a deadly weapon, discharge of a firearm in relation to a crime of violence, violating the civil rights of an illegal alien, and obstruction of justice “for not reporting that their weapons had been fired”. They had been sentenced to 11 years and 1 day and 12 years imprisonment, respectively, and were subsequently incarcerated. [cite news | url=http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/08/02/news/californian/4_04_498_1_07.txt | title=Family seeks support for border agent; Ignacio Ramos serving 11-year sentence after wounding smuggler | publisher=North County Times |date= 2007-08-01 | first= | last= | accessdate = 2007-09-18] FrontPage Magazine deemed them guilty only of "bureaucratic infractions"; "these men have lost their money, their reputations, and (perhaps soon) their freedom trying to protect our nation. For that, they deserve our thanks". [cite news | url=http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/08/02/news/californian/4_04_498_1_07.txt | title=People of the Year: Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean | publisher=FrontPage Magazine |date= 2007-01-01 | first= | last= | accessdate = 2007-09-18]FPM's 2003 "Man of the Year" was Col. Allen B. West, former commander of the 20th Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Battalion, 4th Infantry Division, who had been punished with a $5,000 fine and allowed to retire only as a Lieutenant Colonel after being charged with mistreatment of an Iraqi prisoner. [cite news | url=http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=11533 | title=FrontPage Magazine's Man of the Year: Col. Allen B. West | publisher=FrontPage Magazine |date= 1/2/2004 | first=Ben | last=Johnson | accessdate = 2007-09-18]
Criticism
In 2003 the
SPLC criticized Front Page for calling theNAACP "a defamation and shakedown organization." [cite news | url=http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=57 | title=Defending Dixie | publisher=Southern Poverty Law Center |date= Summer 2003 | first= | last= | accessdate = 2007-09-18]The liberal website
Media Matters for America criticized FrontPageMag.com senior editorJacob Laksin for "falsely claim [ing] Media Matters 'concede [d] ' that half the professors in Horowitz's book 'use their classrooms for political agendas'." [cite news | url=http://mediamatters.org/items/200606120009 | title=FrontPageMag's Laksin falsely claimed Media Matters "concede [d] " that half the professors in Horowitz's book "use their classrooms for political agendas" | publisher=Media Matters for America |date= 2006-06-12 | first= | last= | accessdate = 2007-09-18]On October 10, 2006 Media Matters published an article whose title asserted "Horowitz, FrontPageMag misrepresented CREW statement on Foley emails to suggest 'obstruction of justice'." [cite news | url=http://mediamatters.org/items/200610100017 | title=Horowitz, FrontPageMag misrepresented CREW statement on Foley emails to suggest "obstruction of justice" | publisher=
Media Matters for America |date= 2006-10-10 | first= | last= | accessdate = 2007-09-18] Rep. Mark Foley had sent arguably inappropriate emails to an underage Congressional page (more explicit propositions to others came out later) and, after ABC News broke the story on September 28 based on other information, theCitizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington criticized the FBI, saying that they had both received and turned the suspicious emails over to theFBI in July. According to theWashington Post , "Law enforcement officials said then that the e-mails did not provide enough evidence of a possible crime to warrant a full investigation", that "unidentified Justice and FBI officials told reporters that the e-mails provided by CREW were heavily redacted" and that "the FBI believed that CREW may have received the e-mails as early as April". [ [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/05/AR2006100501657_pf.html Watchdog Group Disputes FBI's Claims on E-Mails - washingtonpost.com ] ] According to Media Matters Horowitz's October 9 FPM blog characterized the CREW claim to have turned the emails over to the FBI on the same day they received them as "holding [them] since at least July 2006" and that the blog "failed to make clear that the dispute concerns allegations made by unnamed officials -- not the agency itself.". The blog entry referred to by Media Matters is no longer available on the FPM magazine site, but the [http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID={D8843C2D-EC2A-4CC4-917A-C667A99E3755} article on this subject] FPM published on October 10 does not have these failings.In 2002, an opinion piece called
Peace Action antisemitic and made other claims. Peace Action denounced the claim as baseless and patently false and claimed the article contained many half-truths.Fact|date=September 2008Editors, columnists, and contributors
References
External links
* [http://www.frontpagemag.com/ FrontPageMag.com]
* [http://www.frontpagemagazine.com/ FrontPageMagazine.com] Alternate name for the same website
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