Farah to speak on high-stakes media terror

WASHINGTON -- WND founder and Editor Joseph Farah joins radical-turned-conservative author David Horowitz and Internet pioneer Andrew Breitbart in a nationally televised panel discussion at the Conservative Political Action Conference Friday, Feb. 8, at noon Eastern at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in the nation's capital.

Farah will be addressing the imminent threat to the First Amendment of "Fairness Doctrine" legislation that will be introduced if Democrats recapture both houses of Congress and the presidency this fall.

The panel topic is "Hugo Chavez Democrats: Silencing the Right." It will be moderated by L. Brent Bozell of the Media Research Center.

CPAC is the largest gathering of political conservatives held annually in the U.S. The 2008 meeting is the 35th annual conference. It is typically televised by C-Span.

Farah is the founder, editor and chief executive officer of WorldNetDaily.com, the world's leading independent Internet news source. In addition, he writes a daily column for WND and a weekly newspaper column for Creators Syndicate. He is also the founder and co-publisher of WND Books, a publishing venture that has produced several New York Times best sellers in the last five years. WND Books is now a wholly owned subsidiary corporation of WND.

Farah made a name for himself with traditional daily newspapers prior to his founding of WorldNetDaily ? running the Sacramento Union, directing the news operation of the Los Angeles Herald Examiner for six years and serving as editor in chief of a group of California dailies and weeklies.

The former nationally syndicated daily talk-show host has written for such publications as the Wall Street Journal, Jerusalem Post, National Review, TV Guide, Reason, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Sun-Times and a host of other national, international and regional publications.

Farah's latest book is called "Stop The Presses: The Inside Story of the New Media Revolution." He has written or collaborated on more than a dozen others, including Rush Limbaugh's 1994 No. 1 best seller "See, I Told You So." His previous book, "Taking America Back," first was published in 2003 and again in paperback in 2005.

Farah will be conducting a "Stop The Presses!" book signing at the event.

Farah's many journalism awards include honors for reporting to writing headlines to honesty and courage in journalism to editing and newspaper design.

Farah speaks all over the world on topics ranging from the Middle East to the media to domestic policy issues.