Liz Trotta Is An Emmy Award-winning Journalist
Liz Trotta is a Fox News contributor and former New York bureau chief of The Washington Times.The author of Fighting for Air: In the Trenches with Television News, Trotta was the first woman to cover a war for broadcast news.She began her career in journalism in 1965 working for the NBC affiliate in New York and won network recognition by taking on tough assignments including covering the Vietnam War and 1984 presidential candidate, George McGovern.
Trotta has worked for Hillman Periodicals; Inter-Catholic Press Agency; Long Island Press; Chicago Tribune; Newsday; NBC and CBS. She has taught Journalism at Stern College of Yeshiva University.The winner of three Emmy awards and two Overseas Press Club awards, Trotta is a graduate of Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
On May 25th, 2008, Trotta made news after expressing a desire on Fox News that U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama be assassinated in the run up to the 2008 presidential election.Prior to calling for his assassination she referred to Barack Obama as "Osama". Her co-anchor then made a remark about how that was her opinion and that she preferred Hillary Clinton or John McCain.In reference to Hillary Rodham Clinton's controversial reference to Robert F. Kennedy's June, 1968, assassination in a discussion of the ongoing 2008 Democratic primaries, she stated,
Trotta briefly laughed after her remarks. Trotta's remarks were made in the context of discussing Hillary Clinton, who had recently made controversial reference to Robert F. Kennedy's June, 1968 assassination in a discussion of her rationale for her continued participation in the 2008 Democratic primary.The mainstream media is largely on holiday for Memorial day, but the blogosphere has reacted to Trotta's remarks. Jeffrey Feldman of The Huffington Post characterizes them as continuing "the trend in violent rhetoric about Sen. Obama" and as "vile, utterly disgusting, "assassination" humor".
